Investigation of the dosimetric effect of respiratory motion using four-dimensional weighted radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4427-4448

  Vandermeer, Aaron D ^a   Alasti, Hamideh ^a,b   Cho, Young Bin ^a,b   Norrlinger, Bern ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

ACCELERATOR BEAM; COLLIMATOR MOTION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL WEIGHTED RADIOTHERAPY (4DW-RT); PHANTOM; VARIAN RPM SYSTEM;

RESPIRATORY THERAPY;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BREATHING PATTERN; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL WEIGHTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SIMULATION;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 34547131286     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/15/005     Document Type: Article

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