Direct aperture deformation: An interfraction image guidance strategy

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4490-4498

  Feng, Yuanming ^a   Castro Pareja, Carlos ^a   Shekhar, Raj ^a   Yu, Cedric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation therapy; Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT); Online correction; Online interfraction treatment uncertainties

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISEASES; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ON-LINE CORRECTIONS; ONLINE CORRECTION METHOD; ONLINE INTERFRACTION TREATMENT UNCERTAINTIES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; DIRECT APERTURE DEFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 33845335211     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2374675     Document Type: Article

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