Quality Assurance of Image-Guidance Technologies

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 278-286

  Bissonnette, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ACCURACY; ANATOMY; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROJECTION RADIOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASOUND;

CALIBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 34548863912     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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