The clinical implementation of respiratory-gated intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 152-162

  Keall, Paul ^a   Vedam, Sastry ^a   George, Rohini ^a   Bartee, Chris ^a   Siebers, Jeffrey ^a   Lerma, Fritz ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth ^a   Chung, Theodore ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IMRT; lung cancer; respiratory gated IMRT

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FILM DOSIMETER; HUMAN; IMAGING; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKLOAD;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 33646263112     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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