Medical Dosimetry
Volume 33, Issue 2 , Pages 156-160 , Summer 2008

Implementation of Fiducial-Based Image Registration in the Cyberknife Robotic System

  • Cheng B. Saw, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Cheng B. Saw, Ph.D., Division of Radiation Oncology, Penn State Cancer Institute, 500 University Drive – H063, Hershey, PA 17033-0850.
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  • Hungcheng Chen, M.S.
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  • Henry Wagner Jr., M.D.

Received 1 November 2007 ,Accepted 29 February 2008.

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PII: S0958-3947(08)00043-5

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2008.03.002

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 33, Issue 2 , Pages 156-160 , Summer 2008

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