Quality assessment of frameless fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy using cone beam computed tomography

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1586-1593

  Peng, Lee Cheng ^a,b   Kahler, Darren ^a   Samant, Sanjiv ^a   Li, Jonathan ^a   Amdur, Robert ^a   Palta, Jatinder R ^a   Liu, Chihray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

CBCT; Fractional stereotactic radiotherapy; High precision radiotherapy; Optical tracking; Setup uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CBCT; HIGH-PRECISION RADIOTHERAPY; OPTICAL TRACKING; SETUP UNCERTAINTY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMELESS STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MASK; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; THERAPEUTIC ERROR;

CALIBRATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MOVEMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78549280120     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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