Assessment of two novel ventilatory surrogates for use in the delivery of gated/tracked radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 336-341

  Hughes, Simon ^a,b   McClelland, James ^c   Tarte, Segolene ^c   Lawrence, David ^c   Ahmad, Shahreen ^b   Hawkes, David ^c   Landau, David ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Radiotherapy; Ventilatory surrogates

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BREATHING PATTERN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG VENTILATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; THORAX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPIROMETRY; SUPINE POSITION; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65649087192     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.03.016     Document Type: Article

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