Image-guided small animal radiation research platform: Calibration of treatment beam alignment

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 891-905

  Matinfar, Mohammad ^a   Ford, Eric ^b   Iordachita, Iulian ^a   Wong, John ^b   Kazanzides, Peter ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ERRORS; BEAM SIZES; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; CAMERA SYSTEMS; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; COLLIMATED BEAMS; CONE-BEAM CT; DISEASE PROGRESSIONS; GAFCHROMIC FILMS; GEOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; HIGH PRECISION; IMAGE-GUIDED; ISOCENTER; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PORTABLE SYSTEMS; POSITIONING ACCURACIES; POSITIONING STAGES; PRECISE POSITIONING; RESEARCH PLATFORMS; SEMI-AUTOMATIC METHODS; SMALL ANIMALS; SUB MILLIMETERS; SYSTEM CALIBRATIONS; TREATMENT BEAMS;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IRRADIATION; RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; X RAY CAMERAS;

CALIBRATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CAMERA; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FILM; GEOMETRY; IRRADIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION RELATED PHENOMENA; ROBOTICS; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMMOBILIZATION; MICE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RESEARCH; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 63649140875     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/4/005     Document Type: Article

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