Dosimetric variances anticipated from breathing-induced tumor motion during tomotherapy treatment delivery

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2541-2555

  Chaudhari, S R ^a   Goddu, S M ^a   Rangaraj, D ^a   Pechenaya, O L ^a   Lu, W ^a   Kintzel, E ^a   Malinowski, K ^a   Parikh, P J ^a   Bradley, J D ^a   Low, D A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC MODELS; BREATHING MOTIONS; BREATHING PATTERNS; CANCER PATIENTS; CO-LOCATED; DOSE DELIVERY; DOSE PROFILE; ERROR MAGNITUDE; MOTION MODELS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MOTIONS; RADIATION DELIVERY; SINUSOIDAL PATTERNS; TOMOTHERAPY; TUMOR MOTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; TUMORS;

ERRORS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 67649130459     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/8/019     Document Type: Article

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