The impact of respiratory motion and treatment technique on stereotactic body radiation therapy for liver cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1440-1451

  Wu, Q Jackie ^a   Thongphiew, Danthai ^a,b   Wang, Zhiheng ^a   Chankong, Vira ^b   Yin, Fang Fang ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable registration; Liver; Respiratory motion; Stereotactic body radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DOSIMETRY; LIVER; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TUMORS;

CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; THIN-PLATE SPLINE MODELS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING RATE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 41449095389     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2839095     Document Type: Article

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