Lung 4D-IMRT treatment planning: An evaluation of three methods applied to four-dimensional data sets

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 319-325

  Ehler, Eric D ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

4D IMRT; 4D CT; Average intensity projection; Intrafraction motion; Tumor motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION RESEARCH; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 52049095720     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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