Motion-induced dose artifacts in helical tomotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5707-5734

  Kim, Bryan ^a,b   Chen, Jeff ^a,b   Kron, Tomas ^c   Battista, Jerry ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONIZATION; COUCH MOTION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE PROFILE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS; MITIGATION STRATEGY; OPTIMAL MOTION; POTENTIAL MOTION; SIMULATION PROGRAM; TARGET MOTIONS; TARGET REGIONS; TARGET VOLUMES; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT MODALITY; TUMOR MOTION;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TARGETS; TUMORS;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; LUNG CANCER; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; TOMOTHERAPY; TUMOR;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 70350639600     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/19/004     Document Type: Article

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