An automatic method of the isocentre position verification for micromultileaf collimator based radiosurgery system

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-21

  Chojnowski, Jacek ^a   Gajewski, Romuald ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electronic portal imaging; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Target positioning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; AUTOMATIC METHOD; COMPUTER SEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; GEOMETRIC DIFFERENCE; INTERSECTION POINTS; MISALIGNMENT ERRORS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TARGET POSITIONING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RADIOTHERAPY; SPHERES; TUNGSTEN;

VERIFICATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; RADIOSURGERY; SOFTWARE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79961136194     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13246-010-0044-2     Document Type: Article

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