A motion phantom study on helical tomotherapy: The dosimetric impacts of delivery technique and motion

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 243-255

  Kanagaki, Brian ^a,b   Read, Paul W ^b   Molloy, Janelle A ^c   Larner, James M ^b   Sheng, Ke ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TUMORS;

DOSE VOLUME HISTOGRAMS (DVH); HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY (HT); PHANTOM FILM DOSIMETRY; RADIOSURGERY;

ONCOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEASUREMENT; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SIMULATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RADIOMETRY; STANDARD;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESPIRATION;

EID: 34247505187     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/1/016     Document Type: Article

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