Dose broadening due to target position variability during fractionated breath-held radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1430-1437

  O'Dell, W G ^a   Schell, M C ^a   Reynolds, D ^a   Okunieff, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D conformal radiotherapy; Dose distribution analysis; Lung cancer; Motion correction; Radiation therapy dose calculations

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIATION EFFECTS; TUMORS;

3D-CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; LUNG CANCER; MOTION CORRECTION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TUMOR; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RESPIRATION;

EID: 0035996431     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1485977     Document Type: Article

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