Target-tracking deliveries on an Elekta linac: A feasibility study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3563-3578

  McQuaid, D ^a   Partridge, M ^a   Symonds Tayler, J R ^a   Evans, P M ^a   Webb, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FILM MEASUREMENT; MOTION TRAJECTORIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TARGET TRAJECTORY; WATER PHANTOM;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TARGETS;

TARGET TRACKING;

ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RISK; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 69249223062     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/11/019     Document Type: Article

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