Radiotherapy planning for lung cancer: Slow CTs allow the drawing of tighter margins

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-170

  Wurstbauer, Karl ^a   Deutschmann, Heinz ^a   Kopp, Peter ^a   Sedlmayer, Felix ^a  

^a Salzburger Landeskliniken und Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversitaet ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Internal margin; Lung cancer; Planning target volume; Radiotherapy planning; Tumor motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RESPIRATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 20444407977     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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