Performing daily prostate targeting with a standard V-EPID and an automated radio-opaque marker detection algorithm

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-64

  Beaulieu, Luc ^a,b   Girouard, Louis Martin ^a   Aubin, Sylviane ^a,b   Aubry, Jean François ^a,b   Brouard, Lucie ^a   Roy Lacroix, Lise ^a   Dumont, Jean ^a   Tremblay, Daniel ^a   Laverdière, Jacques ^a   Vigneault, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic portal imaging device; Gold markers; Margins; Online correction; Prostate motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; ERROR; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SILICON;

EID: 4644351656     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2004.06.006     Document Type: Article

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