Respiratory motion effects on whole breast helical tomotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1464-1475

  Moeckly, Steven R ^a   Lamba, Michael ^a   Elson, Howard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Respiratory motion; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ANTERIOR POSTERIORS; BREAST; DIFFERENCE THRESHOLD; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TOMOTHERAPY;

PHANTOMS;

ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; BREATHING MECHANICS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EXHALATION; FILM; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 41449098127     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2841936     Document Type: Article

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