Review of image-guided radiation therapy

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-103

  Jaffray, David ^a   Kupelian, Patrick ^b   Djemil, Toufik ^c   Macklis, Roger M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; High precision radiotherapy; Image registration; IMRT

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SURGEON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 33846515198     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.7.1.89     Document Type: Review

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