The effect of respiratory cycle and radiation beam-on timing on the dose distribution of free-breathing breast treatment using dynamic IMRT

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3500-3509

  Ding, Chuxiong ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Huq, M Saiful ^a   Saw, Cheng B ^a   Heron, Dwight E ^a   Yue, Ning J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast IMRT; Radiation beam on timing; Respiratory cycle; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

BREAST IMRT; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (4D-CT); HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION BEAMS; RESPIRATORY CYCLE; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 34548354893     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2760308     Document Type: Article

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