Comparison of Safety Margin Generation Concepts in Image Guided Radiotherapy to Account for Daily Head and Neck Pose Variations

Markus Stoll; Eva Maria Stoiber; Sarah Grimm; Jürgen Debus; Rolf Bendl; Kristina Giske

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0168916

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Comparison of Safety Margin Generation Concepts in Image Guided Radiotherapy to Account for Daily Head and Neck Pose Variations

Markus Stoll ,

* E-mail: m.stoll@dkfz.de

Affiliations Department of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9546-6713

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Eva Maria Stoiber,

Affiliation Department of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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Sarah Grimm,

Affiliations Department of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany, Faculty of Computer Science, Heilbronn University, Heilbronn, Germany
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Jürgen Debus,

Affiliations Department of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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Rolf Bendl,

Affiliations Department of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany, Faculty of Computer Science, Heilbronn University, Heilbronn, Germany
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Kristina Giske

Affiliations Department of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany
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Comparison of Safety Margin Generation Concepts in Image Guided Radiotherapy to Account for Daily Head and Neck Pose Variations

Markus Stoll,
Eva Maria Stoiber,
Sarah Grimm,
Jürgen Debus,
Rolf Bendl,
Kristina Giske

Published: December 29, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168916

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