Potential of image-guidance, gating and real-time tracking to improve accuracy in pulmonary stereotactic body radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 288-295

  Guckenberger, Matthias ^a   Krieger, Thomas ^a   Richter, Anne ^a   Baier, Kurt ^a   Wilbert, Juergen ^a   Sweeney, Reinhart A ^a   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gated beam delivery; Image guided radiotherapy (IGRT); Safety margins; Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT); Tumor tracking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INOPERABLE CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG VENTILATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION SAFETY; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TUMOR VOLUME;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 65749109343     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.08.010     Document Type: Article

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