Electronic portal images (EPIs) based position verification for the breast simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) technique

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 108-114

  Sijtsema, Nanna M ^a   Van Dijk Peters, Femke B J ^a   Langendijk, Johannes A ^a   Maduro, John H ^a   Van 'T Veld, Aart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast conserving therapy; Electronic portal imaging; EPID; Position verification; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGE BASED POSITION VERIFICATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULTANEOUS INTEGRATED BOOST TECHNIQUE; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84455205578     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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