Reproducibility of Patient Positioning for Fractionated Extracranial Stereotactic Radiotherapy Using a Double-Vacuum Technique

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 117-122

  Nevinny Stickel, Meinhard ^a   Sweeney, Reinhart A ^a   Bale, Reto J ^a   Posch, Andrea ^a   Auberger, Thomas ^a   Lukas, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Body fixation; Immobilization; Repositioning accuracy; Stereotactic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BED; BODY POSTURE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ERROR; EXERCISE; EXTRACRANIAL STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PELVIC DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY; VACUUM;

ADULT; AGED; BEDS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRONE POSITION; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VACUUM;

EID: 0842285322     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-004-1146-0     Document Type: Article

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