Patient-specific planning for prevention of mechanical collisions during radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Nioutsikou, Elena ^a   Bedford, James L ^a   Webb, Steve ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PLANNING;

MECHANICAL COLLISIONS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0344035361     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/22/N02     Document Type: Article

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