Anatomic feature-based registration for patient set-up in head and neck cancer radiotherapy

Modern radiotherapy equipment is capable of delivering high precision conformal dose distributions relative to isocentre. One of the barriers to precise treatments is accurate patient re-positioning before each fraction of treatment. At Massachusetts General Hospital, we perform daily patient alignm...

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Published in:	Physics in medicine & biology Vol. 50; no. 19; p. 4667
Main Authors:	Sharp, Gregory C, Kollipara, Sashidhar, Madden, Thomas, Jiang, Steve B, Rosenthal, Stanley J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England 07-10-2005
Subjects:	Head and Neck Neoplasms - radiotherapy Humans Pattern Recognition, Automated Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted Skeleton
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