Development of a geometrically accurate imaging protocol at 3 tesla MRI for stereotactic radiosurgery treatment planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 6601-6615

  Zhang, B ^a,b   MacFadden, D ^b   Damyanovich, A Z ^a,b   Rieker, M ^c   Stainsby, J ^d   Bernstein, M ^e   Jaffray, D A ^a,b   Mikulis, D ^f   Menard C ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Physikalisch Technische Gesellschaft für Radiologie MbH   (Germany)

^d GE HEALTHCARE   (Canada)

^e TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; GEOMETRIC ACCURACY; GIVEN IMAGING; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; IMAGING CONDITIONS; IMAGING PROTOCOL; MR IMAGING; PATIENT EVALUATION; PATIENT IMAGING; PHANTOM IMAGING; SPIN ECHO; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RESONANCE; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78650034774     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/22/002     Document Type: Article

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