Respiration tracking in radiosurgery

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2738-2741

  Schweikard, Achim ^a   Shiomi, Hiroya ^b   Adler, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Respiration tracking; Soft tissue navigation; Whole body radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; ROBOTICS; TUMORS;

CORRELATION MODELING; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; INFRARED EMITTERS; INFRARED TRACKING; RADIOSURGERY; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SOFT TISSUE; X-RAY IMAGE PROCESSING;

MOTION TRACKING;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BREATHING MECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; ROBOTICS; X RAY;

EID: 7244242297     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1774132     Document Type: Article

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