Automatic real-time surveillance of eye position and gating for stereotactic radiotherapy of uveal melanoma

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3521-3527

  Petersch, Bernhard ^a   Bogner, Joachim ^a   Dieckmann, Karin ^a   Pötter, Richard ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gated radiotherapy; Patient positioning; Patient setup uncertainty; Stereotactic radiotherapy; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATOLOGY; GATING AND FEEDING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; LIGHT SOURCES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

GATED RADIOTHERAPY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SETUP; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; UVEAL MELANOMA;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EYE FIXATION; EYE IRRITATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FATIGUE; GATED IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; ONLINE MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; UVEA MELANOMA;

EID: 11244338124     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1824195     Document Type: Article

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