Esophagus and spinal cord motion relative to GTV motion in four-dimensional CTs of lung cancer patients

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-48

  Weiss, Elisabeth ^a,b   Wijesooriya, Krishni ^c   Keall, Paul ^d  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Four dimensional computed tomography; Lung cancer; Normal tissue; Radiotherapy; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASM STAGING; SPINAL CORD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41849102429     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.12.016     Document Type: Article

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