Semi-robotic 6 degree of freedom positioning for intracranial high precision radiotherapy; first phantom and clinical results

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wilbert, Jürgen ^a   Guckenberger, Matthias ^a   Polat, Bülent ^a   Sauer, Otto ^a   Vogele, Michael ^a   Flentje, Michael ^a   Sweeney, Reinhart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 DEGREE OF FREEDOM; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIXATION DEVICE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; PHANTOM; PILOT STUDY; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; VACUUM; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH PROTECTOR; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH PROTECTORS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROBOTICS; VACUUM;

EID: 77952616838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-42     Document Type: Article

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