Residual motion of lung tumors in end-of-inhale respiratory gated radiotherapy based on external surrogates

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4149-4156

  Berbeco, Ross I ^a   Nishioka, Seiko ^b   Shirato, Hiroki ^c   Jiang, Steve B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breath coaching; Gating; Organ motion; Radiotherapy; Residual motion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; RADIOTHERAPY;

BREATH COACHING; EXTERNAL SURFACES; GATED RADIOTHERAPY; GATING; ORGAN MOTION; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; RESIDUAL MOTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

TUMORS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; EXHALATION; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INHALATION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUAL VOLUME; SIMULATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 33750545795     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2358197     Document Type: Article

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