A practical approach to prevent gantry-couch collision for linac-base radiosurgery

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2128-2134

  Hua, Chiaho ^a   Chang, Jenghwa ^a   Yenice, Kamil ^a   Chan, Maria ^a   Amols, Howard ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical prediction; Gantry couch collision; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

RADIOTHERAPY; TABLE LOOKUP;

ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; COLLISION DETECTION; GANTRY-COUCH COLLISION; REFERENCE COORDINATES; STEREOTACTIC COORDINATE SYSTEM; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COLLISION DETECTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRY; LINAC BASED RADIOSURGERY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 3142674866     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1764391     Document Type: Article

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