Precision of image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) in six degrees of freedom and limitations in clinical practice

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 183, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 307-313

  Guckenberger, Matthias ^a   Meyer, Juergen ^b   Wilbert, Juergen ^b   Baier, Kurt ^b   Sauer, Otto ^b   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Julius Maximilians University of Wuerzburg ^*

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Frameless stereotactic radiotherapy; Image guided radiotherapy (IGRT); Rotational setup errors; Stereotactic body treatment (SBRT)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS;

ARTIFACTS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NEOPLASMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROBOTICS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34347269146     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-007-1695-0     Document Type: Article

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