Four-dimensional radiotherapy planning for DMLC-based respiratory motion tracking

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 942-951

  Keall, Paul J ^a   Joshi, Sarang ^b   Sastry Vedam, S ^a   Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a   Kini, Vijaykumar R ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4D radiotherapy; Deformable image registration; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DEFORMATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MOTION TRACKING; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TUMORS;

4D RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL RADIOTHERAPY; HIGH-CONTRAST OBJECTS; RESPIRATORY MOTION TRACKING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 17844385102     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1879152     Document Type: Article

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