Development and evaluation of an ultrasound-guided tracking and gating system for hepatic radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5633-5640

  Jacso, Ferenc ^a   Kouznetsov, Alexei ^b   Smith, Wendy L ^a,b  

^a TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Liver radiotherapy; Respiratory gating; SBRT; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

GATING AND FEEDING; MONITORING; PHANTOMS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

CONTINUOUS MONITORING; LIVER RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; SBRT; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; X RAY IMAGING SYSTEM;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; BREATHING PATTERN; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER CANCER; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 72049092643     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3250893     Document Type: Article

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