The reproducibility of a HeadFix relocatable fixation system: Analysis using the stereotactic coordinates of bilateral incus and the top of the crista galli obtained from a serial CT scan

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Kunieda, Etsuo ^a   Oku, Yohei ^a,b   Fukada, Junichi ^a   Kawaguchi, Osamu ^a   Shiba, Hideyuki ^a   Takeda, Atsuya ^b   Kubo, Atsushi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OFUNA CHUO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D MEASUREMENT; ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS; CT SCAN; FIXATION DEVICE; FIXATION SYSTEMS; MEAN DISPLACEMENT; PLATE FIXATION; REFERENCE POINTS; REPOSITIONING ACCURACY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; RIGHT AND LEFT; ROTATIONAL DISPLACEMENTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; TUMOURS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICS; TUMORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIXATION DEVICE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INCUS; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ETHMOID BONE; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IMMOBILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ETHMOID BONE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INCUS; MOTION; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650720997     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/10/N03     Document Type: Article

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