Radiotherapy, Image-Guided

The use of pre-treatment imaging modalities to position the patient, delineate the target, and align the beam of radiation to achieve optimal accuracy and reduce radiation damage to surrounding non-target tissues.

Year introduced: 2012

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Tree Number(s): E02.815.768

MeSH Unique ID: D061089

Entry Terms:

• Image-Guided Radiotherapies
• Image-Guided Radiotherapy
• Radiotherapies, Image-Guided
• Radiotherapy, Image Guided
• Image-Guided Radiation Therapy
• Image-Guided Radiation Therapies
• Image Guided Radiation Therapy
• Radiation Therapies, Image-Guided
• Radiation Therapy, Image-Guided
• Therapies, Image-Guided Radiation
• Therapy, Image-Guided Radiation
• Radiotherapy Target Organ Alignment
• Target Organ Alignment, Radiotherapy

Previous Indexing:

• Radiotherapy or specifics (2002-2011)

See Also:

• Patient Positioning
• Fiducial Markers

All MeSH Categories
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Category
Therapeutics
Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy, Image-Guided