Evaluation of Tumor Position and PTV Margins Using Image Guidance and Respiratory Gating

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1578-1585

  Nelson, Christopher ^a   Balter, Peter ^a   Morice, Rodolfo C ^a   Bucci, Kara ^a   Dong, Lei ^a   Tucker, Susan ^a   Vedam, Sastry ^a   Chang, Joe Y ^a   Starkschall, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4DCT; Image guided patient setup; Lung cancer; Respiratory gating; Target volume

Indexed keywords

IMAGE-GUIDED; LUNG CANCER; PATIENT SETUP; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; TARGET VOLUMES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COSINE TRANSFORMS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; PATIENT MONITORING; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TARGETS; TUMORS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SKIN; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; VERTEBRA BODY;

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TUMOR BURDEN; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77949567364     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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