Four-dimensional treatment planning and fluoroscopic real-time tumor tracking radiotherapy for moving tumor

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 435-442

  Shirato, Hiroki ^a   Shimizu, Shinichi ^a   Kitamura, Kei ^a   Nishioka, Takeshi ^a   Kagei, Kenji ^a   Hashimoto, Seiko ^a   Aoyama, Hidefumi ^a   Kunieda, Tatsuya ^b   Shinohara, Nobuo ^a   Dosaka Akita, Hirotoshi ^a   Miyasaka, Kazuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MitsubishiElectric Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Fluoroscopy; Localization; Pattern recognition; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUOROSCOPY; GOLD; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0033824313     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00625-8     Document Type: Article

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