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Positioning patient (procedure)
Known as:
Patient Positioning
, positioning patient
, Positionings, Patient
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Moving a patient into a specific position or POSTURE to facilitate examination, surgery, or for therapeutic purposes.
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Body position
Moving and Lifting Patients
Positioning - therapy
Radiotherapy, Image-Guided
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2016
2016
Clinical Validation of two Surface Imaging Systems for Patient Positioning in Percutaneous Radiotherapy
M. Wiencierz
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Kathrin Kruppa
,
L. Ludemann
2016
Corpus ID: 74350286
Precise patient positioning and thus precise positioning of the planning target volume (PTV) is a prerequisite for effective…
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Review
2016
Review
2016
Critical care of obese patients during and after spine surgery.
H. Elgafy
,
R. Hamilton
,
N. Peters
,
D. Paull
,
Ali Hassan
World Journal of Critical Care Medicine
2016
Corpus ID: 25764414
Obesity is one of the most prevalent health problems facing the United States today, with a recent JAMA article published in 2014…
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion and comparisons with its predecessors.
C. Lindquist
,
I. Paddick
Neurosurgery
2007
Corpus ID: 35580977
OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to introduce a new radiosurgical device, the Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion (Elekta…
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2007
2007
Deep vein thrombosis in trauma: a prospective study of lower limb orthopedic trauma patients in Tianjin Hospital, China.
Y. Lu
,
B. Ma
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+11 authors
John P. Fletcher
International Angiology
2007
Corpus ID: 43015028
AIM Pulmonary embolism is a third leading cause of death in trauma patients. The prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in…
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2001
2001
An oblique arc capable patient positioning system for sequential tomotherapy.
B. Salter
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J. Hevezi
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A. Sadeghi
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M. Fuss
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T. Herman
Medical Physics (Lancaster)
2001
Corpus ID: 37984669
A new patient positioning system has been designed and manufactured, allowing for the accurate delivery of obliquely oriented…
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2000
2000
A clinical evaluation of setup errors for a prostate immobilization system
J. McGary
,
W. Grant
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
2000
Corpus ID: 4528109
A prostate treatment immobilization system was evaluated with respect to setup errors and efficiency for a specific treatment…
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1999
1999
The importance of computed tomography slice thickness in radiographic patient positioning for radiosurgery.
M. Murphy
Medical Physics (Lancaster)
1999
Corpus ID: 13285063
A new radiographic patient positioning technique developed for radiosurgery has been analyzed to show the effect of computed…
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1999
1999
Reducing cardiac dose in post-operative irradiation of breast cancer patients: the relative importance of patient positioning and CT scan planning.
Peter Canney
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C. Deehan
,
M. Glegg
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J. Dickson
British Journal of Radiology
1999
Corpus ID: 24054461
Left-sided post-operative radiotherapy fields for the treatment of breast cancer inevitably encompass the heart within the…
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1997
1997
Image guided microsurgery with a semifreehand neuronavigational device.
Carlo Schaller
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Bernhard Meyer
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D. Roost
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Johannes Schramm
Journal of Computer-Aided Surgery
1997
Corpus ID: 31660843
There is only limited experience with neuronavigators among the neurosurgical community so far. We evaluated such a prototype…
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1991
1991
Comparison of imaging properties of a computed radiography system and screen-film systems.
S. Sanada
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K. Doi
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X. W. Xu
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F. Yin
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M. Giger
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H. MacMAHON
Medical Physics (Lancaster)
1991
Corpus ID: 21769674
To compare the diagnostic quality of images obtained with a computed radiography (CR) system based on storage phosphor technology…
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