Dynamic Multileaf Collimator Tracking of Respiratory Target Motion Based on a Single Kilovoltage Imager During Arc Radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 600-607

  Poulsen, Per Rugaard ^a,b   Cho, Byungchul ^a   Ruan, Dan ^a   Sawant, Amit ^a   Keall, Paul J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arc radiotherapy; Image guided radiotherapy; Intrafraction motion; Tumor tracking

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; FIDUCIAL MARKER; GEOMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTRAFRACTION MOTION; MOVING TARGETS; OFFLINE; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; REAL TIME; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE DEVIATION; SYSTEM LATENCY; TARGET DEVIATION; TARGET MOTIONS; TARGET POSITION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TREATMENT BEAMS; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR TRACKING; TUMOR TRAJECTORY; X-RAY IMAGE; X-RAY IMAGERS;

ALGORITHMS; CAVITY RESONATORS; EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; RADIOTHERAPY; TARGET TRACKING; TARGETS; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAJECTORIES; TUMORS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUOROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION FIELD; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION; ROTATION;

EID: 77951877433     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.08.030     Document Type: Article

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