Dose calculations accounting for breathing motion in stereotactic lung radiotherapy based on 4D-CT and the internal target volume

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-60

  Admiraal, Marjan A ^a   Schuring, Danny ^a   Hurkmans, Coen W ^a  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

4D; Breathing motion; Dose deformation; Internal target volume; Lung; Stereotactic radiotherapy; Tumour motion; Warping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG VENTILATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38349073449     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.11.022     Document Type: Article

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