Quality Assurance of Immobilization and Target Localization Systems for Frameless Stereotactic Cranial and Extracranial Hypofractionated Radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Solberg, Timothy D ^a   Medin, Paul M ^a   Mullins, John ^b   Li, Sicong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Frameless; Radiosurgery; Stereotactic body radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

FRAMELESS; IMAGE-GUIDANCE TECHNOLOGIES; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

CALIBRATION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMOBILIZATION; NEURONAVIGATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 41749122171     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.05.097     Document Type: Article

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