Lack of Correlation Between External Fiducial Positions and Internal Tumor Positions During Breath-Hold CT

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1586-1591

  Hunjan, Sandeep ^a   Starkschall, George ^a   Prado, Karl ^a   Dong, Lei ^a   Balter, Peter ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; BREATH-HOLD; BREATH-HOLD CT; CT IMAGE; CT SCAN; FIDUCIALS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FREE BREATHING; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; LUNG CANCER; POSITIONAL ACCURACY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COSINE TRANSFORMS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; ONTOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; TUMORS;

FLOATING BREAKWATERS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; EXPIRATORY FLOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; METRIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIBRATION; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INHALATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77949568252     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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