First clinical experience with a multiple region of interest registration and correction method in radiotherapy of head-and-neck cancer patients

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-217

  van Beek, Suzanne ^a   van Kranen, Simon ^a   Mencarelli, Angelo ^a   Remeijer, Peter ^a   Rasch, Coen ^a   van Herk, Marcel ^a   Sonke, Jan Jakob ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical implementation; Cone beam CT; Correction protocols; Deformations; Head and neck cancer patients; Multiple region of interest registration

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EXPERIENCE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; REGISTRATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEDICAL ERRORS; MOVEMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77249147392     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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