Organ motion and its management

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 265-278

  Langen, K M ^a   Jones, D T L ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACCELERATOR CENTRE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Management of organ motion; Organ motion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAPHRAGMS; TUMORS;

INTRAFRACTION ORGAN MOTION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

BLADDER; BODY POSITION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG TUMOR; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOTION; ORGAN; ORGAN MOTION; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM; REVIEW; TUMOR VOLUME;

FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; POSTURE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035341497     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(01)01453-5     Document Type: Review

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