Positioning accuracy of a new image-guided radiotherapy system

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2535-2541

  Miyabe, Yuki ^a   Sawada, Akira ^a   Takayama, Kenji ^a   Kaneko, Shuji ^b   Mizowaki, Takashi ^a   Kokubo, Masaki ^c   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; image fusion; Image guided radiotherapy (IGRT); kV X ray image; Positioning accuracy

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; IMAGE FUSION; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CONE-BEAM CT; IMAGE GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES; POSITIONAL MEASUREMENTS; POSITIONING ACCURACY; X-RAY IMAGE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959563504     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3578607     Document Type: Article

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