Quality Assurance Challenges for Motion-Adaptive Radiation Therapy: Gating, Breath Holding, and Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Jiang, Steve B ^a,b   Wolfgang, John ^a   Mageras, Gig S ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Breath holding; Quality assurance; Radiotherapy; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT MONITORING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RESPIRATORY THERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BREATH HOLDING; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (4D CT); MOTION ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; RESPIRATORY GATING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MOTION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41749122841     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.2386     Document Type: Article

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