Locating and targeting moving tumors with radiation beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5684-5694

  Dieterich, Sonja ^a,b   Cleary, Kevin ^b   D'Souza, Warren ^c   Murphy, Martin ^d   Wong, Kenneth H ^b   Keall, Paul ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Respiratory motion; Tracking

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; LOCATION; MOTION TRACKING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SURFACE DISCHARGES; TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENTS; CURRENT CAPABILITY; DIRECT RADIATIONS; RADIATION BEAMS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 56749184112     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3020593     Document Type: Article

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