Planning Study Comparison of Real-Time Target Tracking and Four-Dimensional Inverse Planning for Managing Patient Respiratory Motion

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1221-1227

  Zhang, Peng ^a   Hugo, Geoffrey D ^a   Yan, Di ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Four dimensional inverse planning; Lung cancer radiotherapy; Real time target tracking; Respiration induced organ motion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TARGETS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANS; CONSISTENT; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATIONS; DISPLACEMENT MAPPINGS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL INVERSE PLANNING; INDUCED MOTIONS; INVERSE PLANNING; LUNG CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; LUNG CANCERS; OPTIMIZED PLANS; ORGAN MOTIONS; PHASE IMAGES; PLANNING METHODS; POTENTIAL METHODS; PRACTICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; REAL-TIME TARGET TRACKING; RELIABLE; RESPIRATION-INDUCED ORGAN MOTION; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SPINAL CORDS; TARGET MOTIONS; TARGET VOLUMES; TRACKING;

TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL INVERSE PLANNING; HEART; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REAL TIME TARGET TRACKING; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTION; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 54049129767     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.07.025     Document Type: Article

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