Quantifying the effect of respiratory motion on lung tumour dosimetry with the aid of a breathing phantom with deforming lungs

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3359-3374

  Nioutsikou, Elena ^a   Richard N Symonds Tayler, J ^a   Bedford, James L ^a   Webb, Steve ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DOSIMETRY; MOTION CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; TUMORS;

DEFORMING LUNGS; DOSE RATE; LUNG TUMOR; RESPIRATORY MOTION;

RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ACCELERATOR; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; EQUIPMENT; ERROR; EXPIRATORY FLOW; GEOMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG TUMOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME; VELOCITY;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION;

EID: 33745812077     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/14/005     Document Type: Article

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