Patient positioning in deep hyperthermia: Influences of inaccuracies, signal correction possibilities and optimization potential

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3923-3936

  Canters, R A M ^a   Franckena, M ^a   Paulides, M M ^a   Van Rhoon, G C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HEATING EFFICIENCIES; MODEL BASED OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION POTENTIAL; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSITION SENSITIVITY; POSITIONING PRECISION; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; SAR DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL CORRECTION; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TREATMENT PLANNING; Z-DIRECTIONS;

HEATING; HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMMOBILIZATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMMOBILIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 70149083309     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/12/021     Document Type: Article

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