Technical aspects of the deep inspiration breath-hold technique in the treatment of thoracic cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1175-1185

  Mah, Dennis ^a,b   Hanley, Joseph ^a   Rosenzweig, Kenneth E ^a   Yorke, Ellen ^a   Braban, Louise ^a   Ling, C Clifton ^a   Leibel, Stephen A ^a   Mageras, Gikas ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breath hold; Conformal therapy; Gating; Instrumentation; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIROMETER; TECHNIQUE; VITAL CAPACITY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHYSICS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0034333267     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00747-1     Document Type: Article

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