Megavoltage computed tomography image guidance with helical tomotherapy in patients with vertebral tumors: Analysis of factors influencing interobserver variability

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 561-569

  Levegrün, Sabine ^a   Pöttgen, Christoph ^a   Abu Jawad, Jehad ^a   Berkovic, Katharina ^a   Hepp, Rodrigo ^a   Stuschke, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; INTRA-OBSERVER VARIABILITY; METHODS AND MATERIALS; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; RIGID TRANSFORMATIONS; SUBMILLIMETER PRECISION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEGAVOLTAGE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SPINE TUMOR; STANDARD; TOMOTHERAPY;

EID: 84872190739     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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