On the dose to a moving target while employing different IMRT delivery mechanisms

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-56

  Ehler, Eric D ^a   Nelms, Benjamin E ^c   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a,b  

^a Department of Medical Physics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Canis Lupus LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

4D IMRT; Gated IMRT delivery; Gating; Intrafraction motion; Temporal dose uniformity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; ROBOTICS; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION;

EID: 34047271046     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.02.007     Document Type: Article

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