Patient alignment and target tracking in radiosurgery of soft-tissue tumors using combined fiducial and skeletal structures tracking techniques

Treating Tumors that Move with Respiration

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 31-36

  Wu, Xiaodong ^a   Fu, Dongshan ^b   De La Zerda, Alberto ^a   Bossart, Elizabeth ^a   Shao, Hua ^a   Both, Joseph ^a   Nikesch, Walter ^c   Huang, Zhicong ^d   Markoe, Arnold M ^a   Schwade, James G ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ACCURAY INCORPORATED   (United States)

^c CyberKnife Center of Palm Beach   (United States)

^d Florida International University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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EID: 84155195409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69886-9_3     Document Type: Chapter

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