Extension of the NCAT phantom for the investigation of intra-fraction respiratory motion in IMRT using 4D Monte Carlo

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1475-1490

  McGurk, Ross ^a   Seco, Joao ^a,b   Riboldi, Marco ^c   Wolfgang, John ^a,b   Segars, Paul ^d   Paganetti, Harald ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORMS; CONSERVATION OF MASS; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DEFORMATION FIELD; DENSITY MODELS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE PLANNING; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; HETEROGENEOUS MODELS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME; LESION SIZE; LUNG MODEL; MC SIMULATION; MEAN DOSE; MONTE CARLO; MOTION AMPLITUDES; NON-UNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINES; ORGAN MOTION; PLANNING SYSTEMS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; RESPIRATORY CYCLE; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SIMULATION SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS; TUMOR SIZE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DIAPHRAGMS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; RATIONAL FUNCTIONS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TUMORS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; THORAX;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION; THORAX;

EID: 77951887281     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/5/014     Document Type: Article

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