A methodology for selecting the beam arrangement to reduce the intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) dose to the SPECT-defined functioning lung

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 403-416

  McGuire, S M ^a   Marks, L B ^b   Yin, F F ^c   Das, S K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DOSE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG PERFUSION; MACRO-AGGREGATED ALBUMINS; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TARGET COVERAGE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74549208424     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/2/005     Document Type: Article

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