Geometrical differences in target volumes between slow CT and 4D CT imaging in stereotactic body radiotherapy for lung tumors in the upper and middle lobe

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4142-4148

  Nakamura, Mitsuhiro ^a   Narita, Yuichiro ^a   Matsuo, Yukinori ^a   Narabayashi, Masaru ^a   Nakata, Manabu ^b   Yano, Shinsuke ^b   Miyabe, Yuki ^a   Matsugi, Kiyotomo ^a   Sawada, Akira ^a   Norihisa, Yoshiki ^a   Mizowaki, Takashi ^a   Nagata, Yasushi ^c   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

4D CT; Lung cancer; Margin; Respiratory motion; Slow CT

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS; X RAYS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL (4D) CT; GEOMETRICAL DIFFERENCES; LUNG CANCER; MARGIN; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY; TARGET DELINEATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 50449092728     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2968096     Document Type: Article

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