Measurement of inter and intra fraction organ motion in radiotherapy using cone beam CT projection images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1087-1098

  Marchant, T E ^a   Amer, A M ^a,b   Moore, C J ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b African Oncology Institute   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY;

ACTUAL PROJECTED MARKER POSITIONS; IMAGING PANELS; TRANSVERSE PLANES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RANGE OF MOTION;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 39049157181     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/4/018     Document Type: Article

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