Breathing-Synchronized Delivery: A Potential Four-Dimensional Tomotherapy Treatment Technique

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1572-1578

  Zhang, Tiezhi ^a   Lu, Weiguo ^b   Olivera, Gustavo H ^b   Keller, Harry ^d   Jeraj, Robert ^c   Manon, Rafael ^e   Mehta, Minesh ^c   Mackie, Thomas R ^b,c   Paliwal, Bhudatt ^c  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

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

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breathing motion; Deformable image registration; Respiratory gating; Tomotherapy; Treatment plan optimization

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BREATH CONTROLLED DEVICES; MOTION CONTROL; SYNCHRONIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREATHING MOTION; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; RESPIRATORY GATING; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLAN OPTIMIZATION;

RESPIRATORY THERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXHALATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER; MONITORING; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SPIROMETER; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34547400003     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.02.054     Document Type: Article

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