A Deliverable Four-Dimensional Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy-Planning Method for Dynamic Multileaf Collimator Tumor Tracking Delivery

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1526-1536

  Suh, Yelin ^a,b   Weiss, Elisabeth ^a   Zhong, Hualiang ^a   Fatyga, Mirek ^a   Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a   Keall, Paul J ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; DMLC tracking; IMRT; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; TARGETS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS;

4D CT SCAN; CT SCANNING; D-OPTIMAL; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS (DVH); DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR (DMLC); EQUIVALENT DOSE (ED); FRACTIONAL TIME; IMRT PLANNING; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRP); LUNG CANCERS; MAJOR AXIS; METRICS (CO); OPTIMAL METHODS; PLANNING METHOD; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RESPIRATORY PHASES; TARGET MOTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); TUMOR TRACKING; VARIATIONS OF; VECTOR FIELDS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47149084580     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.04.018     Document Type: Article

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