VBH head holder to improve frameless stereotactic brachytherapy of cranial tumors

Computer Aided Surgery

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 286-291

  Bale, Reto J ^a,b   Vogele, Michael ^a   Martin, Arno ^a   Auer, Thomas ^a   Hensler, Emil ^a   Eichberger, Paul ^a   Freysinger, Wolfgang ^a   Sweeney, Reinhart ^a   Gunkel, Andreas R ^a   Lukas, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Univ Klinik für Allgemeine Psychiatrie und Sozialpsychiatrie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Frameless stereotaxy; Immobilization; Patient fixation; Stereotactic brachytherapy; VBH head holder; VBH mouthpiece; Virtual simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; IMAGE PROCESSING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STEREOTAXIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL IMPRESSION TECHNIQUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAXILLA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VACUUM;

EID: 6844241934     PISSN: 10929088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0150(1997)2:5<286::AID-IGS4>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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