DMLC motion tracking of moving targets for intensity modulated arc therapy treatment - A feasibility study

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 245-250

  Zimmerman, Jens ^a   Korreman, Stine ^a   Persson, Gitte ^a   Cattell, Herb ^b   Svatos, Michelle ^b   Sawant, Amit ^c   Venkat, Raghu ^c   Carlson, David ^c   Keall, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIGITAL IMAGING; GAMMA IRRADIATION; LUNG CANCER; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 60549112021     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860802266722     Document Type: Article

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