A novel four-dimensional radiotherapy method for lung cancer: Imaging, treatment planning and delivery

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3251-3267

  Alasti, H ^a,b   Cho, Y B ^a,b   Vandermeer, A D ^a   Abbas, A ^a   Norrlinger, B ^a   Shubbar, S ^a   Bezjak, A ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; DRUG DOSAGE; PATIENT TREATMENT; SYNCHRONIZATION; TUMORS;

DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (4D-CT); GROSS TUMOUR VOLUME (GTV); TREATMENT PLANNING METHODS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORACIC CAVITY; THORAX; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ARTIFACTS; BODY BURDEN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745071905     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/12/017     Document Type: Article

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