Image-guided radiation therapy: Current and future directions

Future Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 477-492

  Allison, Ron R ^a   Gay, Hiram A ^a   Mota, Helvecio C ^a   Sibata, Claudio H ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided radiation therapy; Radiation oncology; Technological advances

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZING RADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; STEREORADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33748106887     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/14796694.2.4.477     Document Type: Review

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