Tracking 'differential organ motion' with a 'breathing' multileaf collimator: Magnitude of problem assessed using 4D CT data and a motion-compensation strategy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 4805-4826

  McClelland, J R ^a   Webb, S ^b   McQuaid, D ^b   Binnie, D M ^b,c   Hawkes, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOTION ESTIMATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY THERAPY;

DIFFERENTIAL VOXEL MOTIONS; IRRADIATED VOXELS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR (MLC);

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VELOCITY;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34547334129     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/16/007     Document Type: Article

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