Does elastic tissue intrafraction motion with density changes forbid motion-compensated radiotherapy?

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1449-1462

  Webb, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; IRRADIATION; TISSUE;

DOSE-SPACE VOXELS; ELASTIC TISSUES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; ELASTICITY; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; MOVEMENT; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE; WATER;

EID: 33644693582     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/6/006     Document Type: Article

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