Dosimetric investigation of lung tumor motion compensation with a robotic respiratory tracking system: An experimental study

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1232-1240

  Nioutsikou, Elena ^a   Seppenwoolde, Yvette ^b   Symonds Tayler, J Richard N ^a   Heijmen, Ben ^b   Evans, Phil ^a   Webb, Steve ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CyberKnife; Image guided radiotherapy; Internal external breathing correlation; Lung cancer; Lung phantom; Motion tracking; Respiratory motion compensation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; MOTION COMPENSATION; PHANTOMS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; ROBOTICS; TRACKING (POSITION); TUMORS;

BREATHING PATTERNS; BREATHING PHANTOMS; CYBERKNIFE; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

MOTION TRACKING;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LUNG TUMOR; MOTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 41449087578     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2842074     Document Type: Article

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