Comment on "Image-guided patient positioning: If one cannot correct for rotational offsets in external-beam radiotherapy setup, how should rotational offsets be managed?" [Med. Phys. 34, 1880-1883 (2007)] [1]

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 4064-4065

  Verellen, Dirk ^a   Soete, Guy ^a   Erbel, Stephan ^b   Labsik, Ulf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b BRAINLAB AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE-GUIDED; PATIENT POSITIONING;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34748909399     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2777276     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. M. J. Murphy, " Image-guided patient positioning: if one cannot correct for rotational offsets in external-beam radiotherapy setup, how should rotational offsets be managed?, " Med. Phys. 34, 1880-1883 (2007).
2. G. Soete, D. Verellen, K. Tournel, and G. Storme, " Setup accuracy of stereoscopic x-ray positioning with automated correction for rotational errors in patients treated with conformal arc radiotherapy for prostate cancer., " Radiother. Oncol. 80, 371-373 (2006).
3. J. Y. Jin, S. Ryu, K. Faber, T. Mikkelsen, Q. Chen, S. Li, and B. Movsas, " 2D/3D image fusion for accurate target localization and evaluation of a mask based stereotactic system in fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy of cranial lesions., " Med. Phys. 33, 4557-4566 (2006).