Assessment of a daily online implanted fiducial marker-guided prostate radiotherapy process

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 517-524

  Greer, P B ^a,b   Dahl, K ^a   Ebert, M A ^b   White, M ^c   Wratten, C ^a,b   Ostwald, P ^a,b   Pichler, P ^a   Denham, J W ^a,b,c  

^a CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c Private Urology New Lambton   (Australia)

Author keywords

Physics; Quality assurance; Radiation oncology imaging

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; TREATMENT DURATION;

HUMANS; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PELVIC BONES; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55649104703     PISSN: 17549477     EISSN: 17549485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2008.02006.x     Document Type: Article

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