Analysis of the rigid and deformable component of setup inaccuracies on portal images in head and neck radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 5721-5733

  Birkner, Mattias ^a   Thorwarth, Daniela ^b   Poser, Alexander ^b   Ammazzalorso, Filippo ^b   Alber, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DISPLACEMENT VECTORS; PORTAL IMAGES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; FRONTAL SINUS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ORBIT; PALATE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SKULL; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERTEBRA;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35848964585     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/18/016     Document Type: Article

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