Intracranial stereotactic positioning systems: Report of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group No. 68

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2380-2398

  Lightstone, A W ^a   Benedict, Stanley H ^b   Bova, Frank J ^c   Solberg, Timothy D ^d   Stern, Robin L ^e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Head frame; Immobilization; Stereotactic localization; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Stereotactic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; HEAD FRAMES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PHYSICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE VITRIFICATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TERMINOLOGY; WELL TESTING;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES; RADIATION TREATMENTS; REPOSITIONING ACCURACY; STEREOTACTIC LOCALIZATION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY;

ABILITY TESTING;

ACCURACY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

EID: 22544436952     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1945347     Document Type: Review

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