Monitoring of respiratory movement of the diaphragm for gated radiotherapy

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 10-13

  Tada, Takuhito ^a   Hosono, Masako ^a   Fujioka, Tomio ^b   Fukuda, Haruyuki ^b   Nakajima, Toshifumi ^c   Inoue, Yuichi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluoroscopic images; Gating; Radiotherapy; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; FLUOROSCOPY; GATED IMAGING; GATED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG CANCER; MOTION; PATIENT MONITORING; SENSOR; SIGNAL DETECTION; X RAY;

DIAPHRAGM; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 15644384563     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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