Patient set-up verification by infrared optical localization and body surface sensing in breast radiation therapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 170-178

  Spadea, Maria Francesca ^a   Baroni, Guido ^a   Riboldi, Marco ^a   Tagaste, Barbara ^b   Garibaldi, Cristina ^b   Orecchia, Roberto ^c,d   Pedotti, Antonio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Medical Physics

^c EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Infrared localization; Quality assurance; Radiotherapy; Surface registration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; OPTICS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; POSTURE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33745103374     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.02.011     Document Type: Article

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