Method comparison of automated matching software-assisted cone-beam CT and stereoscopic kilovoltage x-ray positional verification image-guided radiation therapy for head and neck cancer: A prospective analysis

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 7401-7415

  Fuller, Clifton D ^a,b   Scarbrough, Todd J ^b,c   Sonke, Jan Jakob ^d   Rasch, Coen R N ^d   Choi, Mehee ^b   Ting, Joe Y ^c   Wang, Samuel J ^b   Papanikolaou, Niko ^a   Rosenthal, David I ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIMA Cancer Center   (United States)

^d ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED MATCHING; CONCORDANCE ANALYSIS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; ELECTRONIC VERSIONS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMAGE-GUIDED; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGING MODALITY; ISOCENTERS; METHOD COMPARISON; ORTHOGONAL REGRESSION; PROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; TOOLS; VERIFICATION;

FORMAL METHODS;

IODIXANOL;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOM ERROR; STEREORADIOGRAPHY; STEREOSCOPIC KILOVOLTAGE X RAY;

AUTOMATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; X-RAYS;

EID: 71949129329     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/24/010     Document Type: Article

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