Real-time tumor tracking with preprogrammed dynamic multileaf-collimator motion and adaptive dose-rate regulation

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3955-3962

  Yi, Byong Yong ^a   Han Oh, Sarah ^a,b   Lerma, Fritz ^a   Berman, Barry L ^b   Yu, Cedric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MLC; Organ motion; Real time tumor tracking

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ERRORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; REAL TIME CONTROL; TUMORS;

BREATHING PATTERNS; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; MEASUREMENT POINTS; ORGAN MOTION; PATIENT BREATHING; REAL TIME TRACKING; REAL-TIME TUMOR TRACKING; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

MOTION TRACKING;

ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 50449102689     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2965261     Document Type: Article

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