Analysis of Daily Setup Variation With Tomotherapy Megavoltage Computed Tomography

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-37

  Zhou, Jining ^a   Uhl, Barry ^a   Dewit, Kelly ^a   Young, Mark ^a   Taylor, Brian ^a   Fei, Ding Yu ^a   Lo, Yeh Chi ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

CTV margin; Interfractional error; Intrafractional error; TomoTherapy MVCT

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOM ERROR; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOTHERAPY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 75149128157     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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