Four-Dimensional Treatment Planning for Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 276-285

  Guckenberger, Matthias ^a   Wilbert, Juergen ^a   Krieger, Thomas ^a   Richter, Anne ^a   Baier, Kurt ^a   Meyer, Juergen ^a,b   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

4D CT; Four dimensional respiratory correlated computed tomography; Nonrigid deformable image registration; SBRT; Stereotactic body radiotherapy; Tumor breathing motion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MOTION PLANNING; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TUMORS;

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL RESPIRATORY CORRELATED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONRIGID DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY; TUMOR BREATHING MOTION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SOLID TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RESPIRATION; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 34547828780     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.04.074     Document Type: Article

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