Frame-less and mask-less cranial stereotactic radiosurgery: A feasibility study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1863-1873

  Cervĩo, Laura I ^a   Pawlicki, Todd ^a   Lawson, Joshua D ^a   Jiang, Steve B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D SURFACE; COUCH MOTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAD MOTION; HIGH-PRECISION; LONG DURATION; OPTICAL TRACKING SYSTEMS; PATIENT IMMOBILIZATION; PATIENT MOTIONS; PATIENT MOVEMENT; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURFACE IMAGING; TARGET LOCALIZATION;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOLDS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RADIOTHERAPY; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CRANIOTOMY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMMOBILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CRANIOTOMY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMOBILIZATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77949704300     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/7/005     Document Type: Article

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