Fiducial registration error as a statistical process control metric in image-guidance radiotherapy with fiducial markers

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 7473-7485

  Ung, N M ^a,b   Wee, L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c Perth Radiation Oncology Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL CHARTS; CONTROL PARAMETERS; FIDUCIAL MARKER; GEOMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; IMAGE GUIDANCES; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IN-CONTROL; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; MATCHING ALGORITHM; MONITORING PROCESS; ORGAN MOTION; OUT-OF-CONTROL; POINT-BASED; PORTAL IMAGING; POTENTIAL CHANGE; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; PROSTATE CANCERS; RADIATION TREATMENTS; REGISTRATION ERROR; RESIDUAL ERROR; RIGID BODY; X-CHARTS;

ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE MATCHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TIME; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROTATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 81355154127     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/23/009     Document Type: Article

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