Monitoring tumor motion with on-line mega-voltage cone-beam computed tomography imaging in a cine mode

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 823-836

  Reitz, Bodo ^a,b   Gayou, Olivier ^a,b   Parda, David S ^a,b   Miften, Moyed ^a,b  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATIENT MONITORING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUMORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

MEGA-VOLTAGE CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MV-CBCT); PATIENT LOCALIZATION; STATIC VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

ONCOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION;

EID: 39049165539     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/4/001     Document Type: Article

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