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Published on: September 21, 2017
Improved immobilization using an individual head support in head and neck cancer patients
Antonetta C Houweling1, Skadi van der Meer, Edwin van der Wal
1Department of Radiotherapy, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. A.Houweling@umcutrecht.nl
Abstract:
The benefits of a patient-specific head support, developed to improve immobilization during radiotherapy, were determined in head and neck cancer patients. Cone-beam CTs were registered to the planning CT in five regions. Compared to the standard head support, the individual head support decreased the systematic and random errors of the inter- and intrafraction displacements and reduced deformations.
