Evaluation of Image-Guided Positioning for Frameless Intracranial Radiosurgery

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 913-919

  Lamba, Michael ^a   Breneman, John C ^a   Warnick, Ronald E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b MAYFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial; Image guidance; Localization; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ACCURACY; ALIGNMENT ERROR; ANTEROPOSTERIOR; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; BEFORE AND AFTER; CRANIAL; IMAGE GUIDANCES; IMAGE-GUIDANCE; IMAGE-GUIDED; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOSURGERY; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO TESTS; ISOCENTER; LOCALIZATION; MEAN DISTANCES; MOUNTING SYSTEMS; PATIENT IMMOBILIZATION; POST TREATMENT; RADIOSURGERY; STABILITY TESTS; TARGET LOCALIZATION; TARGET STABILITY;

ERRORS; MOUNTINGS; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL TESTS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TARGETS;

ALIGNMENT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; SKULL SURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 67049107491     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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