Report on a randomized trial comparing two forms of immobilization of the head for fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-17

  Bednarz, Greg ^a,b   MacHtay, Mitchell ^a   Werner Wasik, Maria ^a   Downes, Beverly ^c   Bogner, Joachim ^d   Hyslop, Terry ^a   Galvin, James ^a   Evans, James ^c   Curran, Walter ^a,e   Andrews, David ^c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head immobilization; Online imaging; Randomized trial; Stereotactic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY;

FRACTIONATED STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD IMMOBILIZATION; HEAD POSITION; IMMOBILISATION; ISOCENTERS; MECHANICAL CONTACT; ON-LINE IMAGING; RANDOMIZED TRIAL; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; THERMOPLASTIC MASKS;

STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; GILL THOMAS COSMAN FRAME; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; THERMOPLASTIC MASK;

EID: 58149140087     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3030950     Document Type: Article

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