CT guidance is needed to achieve reproducible positioning of the mouse head for repeat precision cranial irradiation

Radiation Research

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 119-123

  Armour, M ^a   Ford, E ^a   Iordachita, I ^b   Wong, J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD POSITION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL IRRADIATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANIMALS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; HEAD; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 73349090924     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1845.1     Document Type: Article

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