Stereographic Targeting in Prostate Radiotherapy: Speed and Precision by Daily Automatic Positioning Corrections Using Kilovoltage/Megavoltage Image Pairs

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1074-1083

  Mutanga, Theodore F ^a   de Boer, Hans C J ^a   van der Wielen, Gerard J ^a   Wentzler, Davy ^a   Barnhoorn, Jaco ^a   Incrocci, Luca ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fiducial markers; Image guided radiotherapy; On line corrections; Organ motion; Prostate localization; Stereographic targeting

Indexed keywords

ANTEROPOSTERIOR (AP); APPLIED (CO); CENTER OF MASS (COM); CRANIOCAUDAL (CC); IMAGE PAIRS; MEGAVOLTAGE (MV); MONITOR UNITS; PHANTOM IMAGES; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; POSITIONING ERRORS; PROSTATE CANCER (CAP); PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY; STANDARD DEVIATION (STD); SUCCESS RATES; SYSTEMATIC (CO); THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D);

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; ORTHOGONAL ROTATION; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STEREORADIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSTURE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 45449101681     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.11.022     Document Type: Article

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