Impact of the frequency of online verifications on the patient set-up accuracy and set-up margins

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rudat, Volker ^a   Hammoud, Mohamed ^a   Pillay, Yogin ^a   Alaradi, Abdul A ^a   Mohamed, Adel ^a   Altuwaijri, Saleh ^a  

^a SAAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ERROR; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PARAMETER; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SET UP ERROR; PELVIS CANCER; PLANNING TARGET VOLUME; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; SET UP MARGIN; THORAX CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; INTERNET; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052031475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-101     Document Type: Article

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