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Research Article

Clinical evaluation of 3D/3D MRI-CBCT automatching on brain tumors for online patient setup verification – A step towards MRI-based treatment planning

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Pages 1085-1091 | Received 18 May 2010, Accepted 29 May 2010, Published online: 13 Sep 2010

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