The Use of 4DCT to Reduce Lung Dose: A Dosimetric Analysis

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 273-278

  Khan, Fazal ^a   Bell, Glenn ^a   Antony, Jacob ^a   Palmer, Matt ^a   Balter, Peter ^a   Bucci, Kara ^a   Chapman, Melissa Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4DCT; Lung dose; Motion; V20

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; LUNG VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BODY BURDEN; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 70350183802     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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