Simulator verification of the accuracy of patient repositioning after virtual simulation: Is physical simulation still needed?

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 715-721

  Schüller, Patrick ^a   Bruns, Frank ^b   Hesselmann, Stefan ^a   Horn, Kirsten ^a   Panke, Joan E ^c   Schuck, Andreas ^a   Schäfer, Ulrich ^a   Micke, Oliver ^a   Willich, Normann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Patient positioning; Radiotherapy; Simulation; Virtual simulation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ACCURACY; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEAD TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMMOBILIZATION; LASER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTION; NECK TUMOR; PATIENT POSITIONING; SUPINE POSITION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PRONE POSITION; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 18744411784     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-002-1037-1     Document Type: Article

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