Target-tracking deliveries using conventional multileaf collimators planned with 4D direct-aperture optimization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4013-4029

  McQuaid, D ^a   Webb, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DEGRADATION; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTORESISTS; SULFATE MINERALS; TARGET TRACKING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS;

4-D PLANNING; BREATHING CYCLE; DISCRETE PHASES; DYNAMIC TARGETS; FUNCTION VALUES; INDUCED DEGRADATION; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MOTION MODELING; MULTI-LEAF COLLIMATOR; MULTI-LEAF COLLIMATORS; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; PATIENT MODELING; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RESPIRATORY PHASES; SINGLE PHASING; TISSUE MOTION; TRACKING MOTION; TREATMENT OPTIMIZATION;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING PATTERN; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EYE TRACKING; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 48349129953     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/15/001     Document Type: Article

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