The effect on IMRT conformality of elastic tissue movement and a practical suggestion for movement compensation via the modified dynamic multileaf collimator (dMLC) technique

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1163-1190

  Webb, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOTHERAPY;

ELASTIC TISSUE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT); PAPER MODELS; PATIENT BREATHING;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; ELASTIC TISSUE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 16444369980     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/6/009     Document Type: Article

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