The patient positioning concept for the planned MedAustron centre

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 73, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2004, Pages

  Sweeney, Reinhart A ^a   Vogele, Michael ^b   Wegmayr, Alexandra ^a   Lukas, Peter ^a   Auberger, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Medical Intelligence GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

HexaPod; Infrared photogrammetry; Patient positioning; Treatment couch

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; INFRARED RADIATION; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PHOTOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; POSTURE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85047691404     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(04)80017-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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