Clinical application of image-guided radiotherapy, IGRT (on the Varian OBI platform)

Cancer/Radiotherapie

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 252-257

  Sorcini, Bruno ^a   Tilikidis, Aris ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Image guided radiation therapy; Patient positioning; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANATOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DEVICE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; SHORT SURVEY; SOFT TISSUE RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD; TARGET VARIABLE; TATTOO; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ULTRASOUND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; X RAY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

GOLD ALLOY;

GOLD ALLOYS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POSTURE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33749235693     PISSN: 12783218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2006.05.012     Document Type: Short Survey

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