Only a single implanted marker is needed for tracking lung cancers for IGRT

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4845-4847

  Wu, Xiaodong ^a,b   Dieterich, Sonja ^b   Orton, Colin G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPLANTED MARKERS; LUNG CANCER;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGING; LUNG CANCER; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350733234     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3218765     Document Type: Review

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