Integrated radiotherapy imaging system (IRIS): Design considerations of tumour tracking with linac gantry-mounted diagnostic x-ray systems with flat-panel detectors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 243-255

  Berbeco, Ross I ^a   Jiang, Steve B ^a   Sharp, Gregory C ^a   Chen, George T Y ^a   Mostafavi, Hassan ^b   Shirato, Hiroki ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE SENSORS; RADIOGRAPHY; TUMORS; X RAY PRODUCTION;

INTEGRATED RADIOTHERAPY IMAGING SYSTEM (IRIS);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; X RAY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 0942277196     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/2/005     Document Type: Article

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