Three-dimensional intrafractional movement of prostate measured during real-time tumor-tracking radiotherapy in supine and prone treatment positions

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1117-1123

  Kitamura, Kei ^a   Shirato, Hiroki ^a   Seppenwoolde, Yvette ^b   Onimaru, Rikiya ^a   Oda, Makoto ^a   Fujita, Katsuhisa ^a   Shimizu, Shinichi ^a   Shinohara, Nobuo ^a   Harabayashi, Toru ^a   Miyasaka, Kazuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intrafractional motion; Prostate; Real time tracking

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

LINEAR ACCELERATOR;

RADIOTHERAPY;

GOLD;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BREATHING PATTERN; BREATHING RATE; CALCULATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FLUOROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; NOISE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SUPINE POSITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

FLUOROSCOPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATION;

EID: 0036680531     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)02882-1     Document Type: Article

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