Image-Guided Radiotherapy in Near Real Time With Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy Megavoltage Treatment Beam Imaging

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 603-610

  Mao, Weihua ^a,b   Hsu, Annie ^a   Riaz, Nadeem ^a   Lee, Louis ^a   Wiersma, Rodney ^a   Luxton, Gary ^a   King, Christopher ^a   Xing, Lei ^a   Solberg, Timothy ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

EPID; Fiducial marker; IGRT; Prostate; Real time tracking

Indexed keywords

EPID; FIDUCIAL MARKER; IGRT; PROSTATE; REAL-TIME TRACKING;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; GOLD; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 69549128103     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.04.068     Document Type: Article

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