Real-time tumor tracking: Automatic compensation of target motion using the Siemens 160 MLC

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 753-761

  Tacke, Martin B ^a   Nill, Simeon ^a   Krauss, Andreas ^a   Oelfke, Uwe ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Dynamic motion compensation; Dynamic multileaf collimator; Tumor tracking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DOSIMETRY; ERRORS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION TRACKING; OPTIMIZATION; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; DYNAMIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC MOTIONS; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; REAL-TIME TUMOR TRACKING; TARGET TRACKING SYSTEMS; TUMOR TRACKING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL TARGETS;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 75749118592     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3284543     Document Type: Article

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