Delineation of moving targets with slow MVCT scans: Implications for adaptive non-gated lung tomotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1119-1134

  Smeenk, Christopher ^a   Gaede, Stewart ^a,b   Battista, Jerry J ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MOTION CONTROL; SCANNING; TARGET TRACKING; TUMORS;

CRANIAL-CAUDAL MOTIONS; DELINEATION; INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME (ITV); MOVING TARGETS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247134028     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/4/017     Document Type: Article

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