An analysis of patient positioning during stereotactic lung radiotherapy performed without rigid external immobilization

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-32

  Dahele, Max ^a   Verbakel, Wilko ^a   Cuijpers, Johan ^a   Slotman, Ben ^a   Senan, Suresh ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Immobilization; Lung; Spine; Stereoscopic imaging; Stereotactic body radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DEVICES; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MOTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; ROTATION; SPINE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOSURGERY; ROTATION;

EID: 84863194310     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.03.020     Document Type: Article

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