Tumor tracking and motion compensation with an adaptive tumor tracking system (ATTS): System description and prototype testing

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3911-3921

  Wilbert, Jürgen ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^b   Baier, Kurt ^a   Guckenberger, Matthias ^a   Herrmann, Christian ^a   Heß, Robin ^a   Janka, Christian ^c   Ma, Lei ^a   Mersebach, Torben ^c   Richter, Anne ^a   Roth, Michael ^c   Schilling, Klaus ^a   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c Medical Intelligence GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy (ART); HexaPOD; Lung tumor; Real time tracking; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MOTION COMPENSATION; ROBOTICS; TRACKING (POSITION); TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; HEXAPOD; LUNG TUMOR; REAL TIME TRACKING; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

MOTION TRACKING;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; LUNG TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 50449107824     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2964090     Document Type: Article

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