Imaging and alignment for image-guided radiation therapy

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 931-937

  Balter, James M ^a   Kessler, Marc L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGING; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947505278     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.09.7998     Document Type: Review

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