Determination of prospective displacement-based gate threshold for respiratory-gated radiation delivery from retrospective phase-based gate threshold selected at 4D CT simulation

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4247-4255

  Vedam, S ^a   Archambault, L ^a   Starkschall, G ^a   Mohan, R ^a   Beddar, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Gate threshold; Gated radiotherapy; Prospective gate threshold; Respiratory motion management; Retrospective gate threshold

Indexed keywords

BIOFEEDBACK; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TUMORS;

GATE THRESHOLD; GATED RADIOTHERAPY; PROSPECTIVE GATE THRESHOLD; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE GATE THRESHOLD;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; DELIVERY GATE THRESHOLD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; FRACTIONATION; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RESPIRATORY GATING; SIMULATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 35648939217     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2794169     Document Type: Article

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