Comparison of Kilovoltage Cone-Beam Computed Tomography With Megavoltage Projection Pairs for Paraspinal Radiosurgery Patient Alignment and Position Verification

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1572-1580

  Kriminski, Sergey A ^a   Lovelock, D Michael ^a   Seshan, Venkatraman E ^b   Ali, Imad ^a   Munro, Peter ^c   Amols, Howard I ^a   Fuks, Zvi ^a   Bilsky, Mark ^a   Yamada, Yoshiya ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam computed tomography; Image guided radiotherapy; Intrafractional motion; Megavoltage localization; Paraspinal

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; GOLD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONTOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; STANDARDS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ANTEROPOSTERIOR; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HIGH-DOSE; IMAGE PAIRS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTRAFRACTIONAL MOTION; MEGAVOLTAGE; MEGAVOLTAGE LOCALIZATION; MUTUAL INFORMATION; PARASPINAL; PATIENT SETUP; POSITIONING PRECISION; POST TREATMENTS; RADIOSURGERY; REFERENCE IMAGES; REGION -OF-INTEREST; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL REGISTRATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GOLD; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOSURGERY; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 47149097983     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.04.029     Document Type: Article

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