CT evaluation of patient deep inspiration self-breath-holding: How precisely can patients reproduce the tumor position in the absence of respiratory monitoring devices?

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1183-1187

  Onishi, Hiroshi ^a   Kuriyama, Kengo ^a   Komiyama, Takafumi ^a   Tanaka, Shiho ^a   Ueki, Junko ^a   Sano, Naoki ^a   Araki, Tsutomu ^a   Ikenaga, Satoshi ^a   Tateda, Yoshihito ^a   Aikawa, Yoshihito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breath holding; CT; Lung cancer; Radiotherapy; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORS; TUMORS;

ANTERIOR POSTERIORS; BREATH-HOLDING; LUNG CANCER; MEAN MAXIMUMS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; RESPIRATION CYCLE; RESPIRATORY MONITORING; RESPIRATORY MOVEMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 10744230542     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1570372     Document Type: Article

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