A Comprehensive Assessment by Tumor Site of Patient Setup Using Daily MVCT Imaging From More Than 3,800 Helical Tomotherapy Treatments

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1260-1269

  Schubert, Leah K ^a   Westerly, David C ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a   Mehta, Minesh P ^a   Soisson, Emilie T ^a   Mackie, Thomas R ^a   Ritter, Mark A ^a   Khuntia, Deepak ^a   Harari, Paul M ^a   Paliwal, Bhudatt R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guidance; MVCT; Patient positioning; Setup error; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RANDOM ERRORS; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IMAGE-GUIDANCE; MVCT; PATIENT POSITIONING; SETUP ERROR; TOMOTHERAPY;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE COMPUTED ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TOMOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 61349201543     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.11.054     Document Type: Article

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