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Chemotherapy and radiotherapy

A comparison of patient position displacements from body surface laser scanning and cone beam CT bone registrations for radiotherapy of pelvic targets

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Pages 268-277 | Received 11 Oct 2012, Accepted 26 Apr 2013, Published online: 20 Jun 2013

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