A method to implement full six-degree target shift corrections for rigid body in image-guided radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-31

  Yue, Ning J ^a,b   Knisely, Jonathan P S ^a   Song, Haijun ^a   Nath, Ravinder ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinate systems; IGRT; Image guided radiotherapy; Target shift correction

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RIGID STRUCTURES;

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; CRITICAL STRUCTURES; EXTERNAL RADIATION; IGRT; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MACHINE COORDINATE SYSTEMS; MATRIX TRANSFORMATION; TRANSFORMATION MATRICES;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MACHINE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 31044437669     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2138009     Document Type: Article

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