4-Dimensional conformal radiation therapy: Image-guided radiation therapy and its application in lung cancer treatment

Clinical Lung Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 187-194

  Park, Clint ^a   Zhang, Geoffrey ^a   Choy, Hak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomic contouring; Breathing patterns; Computed tomography; Interfraction motion; Radioprotectors

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING PATTERN; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INOPERABLE CANCER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 33845449029     PISSN: 15257304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CLC.2006.n.046     Document Type: Review

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