Clinical evaluation of a robotic 6-degree of freedom treatment couch for frameless radiosurgery

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 467-474

  Gevaert, Thierry ^a   Verellen, Dirk ^a   Engels, Benedikt ^a   Depuydt, Tom ^a   Heuninckx, Karina ^a   Tournel, Koen ^a   Duchateau, Michael ^a   Reynders, Truus ^a   De Ridder, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

6DOF treatment couches; Frameless radiosurgery; Intrafraction motion; Patient setup error; Thermoplastic mask

Indexed keywords

6-DOF POSITIONING; 6DOF TREATMENT COUCHES; ADDED VALUES; AFTER-TREATMENT; BRAIN METASTASIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONFORMITY INDEX; FRAMELESS STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; GERMANY; INTRAFRACTION MOTION; ISOCENTERS; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; LATERAL ROTATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SETUP; RADIOSURGERY; ROTATIONAL ERRORS; SETUP ERRORS; TARGET POSITIONING; TREATMENT PLANNING; X-RAY SYSTEM;

ERRORS; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ROBOTICS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MASK; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; ROBOTICS; SIMULATION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MASKS; MOVEMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY SETUP ERRORS; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; ROBOTICS; ROTATION;

EID: 84859829666     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.05.048     Document Type: Article

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