Feasibility of using cone-beam CT to verify and reposition the optically guided target localization of linear accelerator based stereotactic radiosurgery

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 390-396

  Zhu, Jingeng ^a  

^a Provena St Joseph Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

cone beam CT (CBCT); optical guided target localization; quality assurance; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CALIBRATION; ERRORS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; METADATA; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

CONEBEAM CT; DATA TRANSFORMATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SYSTEM CALIBRATION; TARGET LOCALIZATION; TARGET POSITION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650890408     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3531547     Document Type: Article

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