TOPOS: A new topometric patient positioning and tracking system for radiation therapy based on structured white light

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Lindl, Bastian L ^a,b   Müller, Reinhold G ^a,b   Lang, Stephanie ^c   Herraiz Lablanca, Maria D ^c   Klöck, Stephan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

IGRT; patient positioning; phase measuring triangulation; radiotherapy; surface detection; tracking

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CAMERAS; COLOR; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); IRRADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SURFACE DISCHARGES;

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF PRODUCTS; IGRT; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; OFF-THE-SHELF HARDWARES; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT POSITIONING SYSTEM; SURFACE DETECTION; SURFACE REGISTRATION ALGORITHMS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BREATHING PATTERN; CAMERA; CODING; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OPTICS; ORGANS AT RISK; PATIENT COMFORT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SENSOR; SIGNAL DETECTION; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRIANGULATION; WHITE LIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EVALUATION; ILLUMINATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHTING; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 84876169191     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4794927     Document Type: Article

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