Validation of a computational method for assessing the impact of intra-fraction motion on helical tomotherapy plans

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6611-6621

  Ngwa, Wilfred ^a   Meeks, Sanford L ^a   Kupelian, Patrick A ^a   Schnarr, Eric ^b   Langen, Katja M ^a  

^a M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

^b TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING MOTIONS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DELIVERY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE PROFILE; FILM MEASUREMENT; GAMMA ANALYSIS; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; MOTION DATA; PATIENT MOTIONS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TOMOTHERAPY;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 70449109631     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/21/011     Document Type: Article

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