A cone beam CT-guided online plan modification technique to correct interfractional anatomic changes for prostate cancer IMRT treatment

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1691-1703

  Fu, Weihua ^a   Yang, Yong ^a   Yue, Ning J ^a,b   Heron, Dwight E ^a   Huq, M Saiful ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC CHANGES; CONE-BEAM CT; CORRECTION TECHNIQUES; HIGHER EFFICIENCIES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPIES; LEAF POSITIONS; MULTI-LEAF COLLIMATORS; PLAN MODIFICATIONS; PRACTICAL METHODS; PRE TREATMENTS; PROSTATE CANCERS; RE-PLANNING; SHAPE CHANGES; STRUCTURE-BASED; TARGET MOTIONS; TARGET POSITIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; TARGETS;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLLIMATOR; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE;

ARTIFACTS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SKIN;

EID: 63649157101     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/6/019     Document Type: Article

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