An "in silico" clinical trial comparing free breathing, slow and respiration correlated computed tomography in lung cancer patients

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-80

  Bosmans, Geert ^a   Buijsen, Jeroen ^a   Dekker, André ^a   Velders, Marije ^a   Boersma, Liesbeth ^a   De Ruysscher, Dirk ^a   Minken, André ^a   Lambin, Philippe ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

4D CT; Lung cancer; Radiation treatment planning; Respiration; Tumor motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; TIDAL VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33749438007     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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