Physical aspects of a real-time tumor-tracking system for gated radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1187-1195

  Shirato, Hiroki ^a   Shimizu, Shinichi ^a   Kunieda, Tatsuya ^b   Kitamura, Kei ^a   Van Herk, Marcel ^c   Kagei, Kenji ^a   Nishioka, Takeshi ^a,b,c   Hashimoto, Seiko ^a   Fujita, Katsuhisa ^a   Aoyama, Hidefumi ^a   Tsuchiya, Kazuhiko ^a,b,c   Kudo, Kohsuke ^a   Miyasaka, Kazuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mitsubishi Electronics Company   (Japan)

^c ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gating; Organ motion; Pattern recognition; Radiotherapy; Real time tracking; Setup error

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; HUMAN; LUNG MODEL; LUNG TUMOR; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0034333029     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00748-3     Document Type: Article

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