The influence of a six degrees of freedom couch and an individual head support in patient positioning in radiotherapy of head and neck cancer

The influence of a six degrees of freedom couch and an individual head support in patient positioning in radiotherapy of head and neck cancer

Reproducible patient positioning is important in radiotherapy (RT) of head-and-neck cancer. We therefore compared set-up errors in head-and-neck RT resulting from three different patient positioning systems. Patients were either treated with a standard head support (SHS) and conventional treatment c...

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Main Authors: Myra F. Rodrigues, Sten Veen, Jaap van Egmond, Mark van Hameren, Theodorus van Oorschot, Steven de Vet, Jan P.C. van Santvoort, Ruud G.J. Wiggenraad, Mirjam E. Mast
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-07-01
Series:Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405631619300168

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