Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 111-120 , Summer 2007

Optical Tracking Technology in Stereotactic Radiation Therapy

  • Thomas H. Wagner, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Physics, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, FL
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Thomas H. Wagner, Ph.D., Department of Radiation Physics, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, 1400 S. Orange Avenue, M.P. 730, Orlando, FL 32806.
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  • Sanford L. Meeks, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Physics, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, FL
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  • Frank J. Bova, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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  • William A. Friedman, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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  • Twyla R. Willoughby, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Physics, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, FL
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  • Patrick A. Kupelian, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Physics, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, FL
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  • Wolfgang Tome, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

,Accepted 11 January 2007.

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PII: S0958-3947(07)00009-X

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2007.01.008

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 111-120 , Summer 2007

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