The susceptibility of IMRT dose distributions to intrafraction organ motion: An investigation into smoothing filters derived from four dimensional computed tomography data

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2809-2818

  Coolens, Catherine ^a   Evans, Phil M ^a   Seco, Joao ^a   Webb, Steve ^a   Blackall, Jane M ^b   Rietzel, Eike ^c   Chen, George T Y ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable image registration; IMRT; Organ motion; Treatment uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MEDIAN FILTERS; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMRT; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; ORGAN MOTION; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; TREATMENT UNCERTAINTY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER; LIVER CANCER; ORGAN MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33746602641     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2219329     Document Type: Article

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