Pitch, roll, and yaw variations in patient positioning

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 949-955

  Kaiser, Adeel ^a   Schultheiss, Timothy E ^b   Wong, Jeffrey Y C ^b   Smith, David D ^b   Han, Chunhui ^b   Vora, Nayana L ^b   Pezner, Richard D ^b   Chen, Yi Jen ^b   Radany, Eric H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Image guided radiation therapy; megavoltage computed tomography; Prostate cancer; Setup variations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUMORS;

HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; MEGAVOLTAGE-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE CANCER; SETUP VARIATIONS;

PATIENT MONITORING;

ARTICLE; BONE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748941905     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.05.055     Document Type: Article

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