Differences in the definition of internal target volumes using slow CT alone or in combination with thin-slice CT under breath-holding conditions during the planning of stereotactic radiotherapy for lung cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 443-449

  Seki, Satoshi ^a   Kunieda, Etsuo ^a   Takeda, Atsuya ^b   Nagaoka, Tomoaki ^c   Deloar, Hossain M ^d   Kawase, Takatsugu ^a   Fukada, Junichi ^a   Kawaguchi, Osamu ^a   Uematsu, Minoru ^a   Kubo, Atsushi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ofuna Chuo Hospital   (Japan)

^c National Institute of Informatics   (Japan)

^d CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Slow CT; Stereotactic radiotherapy; Target volume delineation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOSURGERY; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36749066629     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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