Nonrigid patient setup errors in the head-and-neck region

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 183, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 506-511

  Polat, Buelent ^b   Wilbert, Juergen ^b   Baier, Kurt ^b   Flentje, Michael ^b   Guckenberger, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Automatic image registration; Cone beam CT; Head and neck tumors; Nonrigid setup errors; Safety margin

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MANDIBLE; MASK; MOTION; SKULL; SPINE MOBILITY; THERMOPLASTIC HEAD MASK;

ARTIFACTS; BODY BURDEN; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MASKS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34548314016     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-007-1747-5     Document Type: Article

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