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Positioning patient (procedure)

Known as: Patient Positioning, positioning patient, Positionings, Patient 
Moving a patient into a specific position or POSTURE to facilitate examination, surgery, or for therapeutic purposes.
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2016
2016
Precise patient positioning and thus precise positioning of the planning target volume (PTV) is a prerequisite for effective… 
Review
2016
Review
2016
Obesity is one of the most prevalent health problems facing the United States today, with a recent JAMA article published in 2014… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to introduce a new radiosurgical device, the Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion (Elekta… 
2007
2007
AIM Pulmonary embolism is a third leading cause of death in trauma patients. The prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in… 
2001
2001
A new patient positioning system has been designed and manufactured, allowing for the accurate delivery of obliquely oriented… 
2000
2000
A prostate treatment immobilization system was evaluated with respect to setup errors and efficiency for a specific treatment… 
1999
1999
A new radiographic patient positioning technique developed for radiosurgery has been analyzed to show the effect of computed… 
1999
1999
Left-sided post-operative radiotherapy fields for the treatment of breast cancer inevitably encompass the heart within the… 
1997
1997
There is only limited experience with neuronavigators among the neurosurgical community so far. We evaluated such a prototype… 
1991
1991
To compare the diagnostic quality of images obtained with a computed radiography (CR) system based on storage phosphor technology…