Evaluation of methods for opto-electronic body surface sensing applied to patient position control in breast radiation therapy

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 679-688

  Baroni, Guido ^a   Troia, A ^a   Riboldi, M ^a   Orecchia, R ^b   Ferrigno, G ^a   Pedotti, A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Opto electronics; Radiotherapy; Real time motion analysis; Surface registration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IRRADIATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; ONCOLOGY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TUMORS;

PATIENT REPOSITIONING TECHNIQUES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRONICS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTION; POSTURE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0345099659     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02349976     Document Type: Article

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