A novel method to correct for pitch and yaw patient setup errors in helical tomotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1630-1639

  Boswell, Sarah A ^a   Jeraj, Robert ^a,b   Ruchala, Kenneth J ^c   Olivera, Gustavo H ^c   Jaradat, Hazim A ^a   James, Joshua A ^a   Gutierrez, Alonso ^a   Pearson, Dave ^c   Frank, Gary ^a   Mackie, T Rock ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS;

AUTOMATED METHODS; CORONAL PLANES; GANTRY ANGLES; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; PATIENT SETUP ERRORS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; ROTATIONAL ERRORS; TRANSVERSE PLANES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

AUTOMATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ERROR; HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 21144453698     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1914543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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