Pre-clinical evaluation of respiratory-gated delivery of volumetric modulated arc therapy with RapidArc

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Nicolini, Giorgia ^a   Vanetti, Eugenio ^a   Clivio, Alessandro ^a   Fogliata, Antonella ^a   Cozzi, Luca ^a  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENTS; AVERAGE DEVIATION; AVERAGE NUMBERS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DELIVERY; DOSE MEASUREMENT; DOSE PRESCRIPTION; DOSIMETRIC IMPACT; EXTREME CASE; GAMMA TEST; GANTRY ANGLES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOG FILE; MEASURED POINTS; MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT; MONITOR UNITS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PRE-CLINICAL; PRE-TREATMENT; REPRODUCIBILITIES; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

CAVITY RESONATORS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; EXPERIMENTS; GATING AND FEEDING;

MEASUREMENTS;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; BREATHING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RESPIRATION;

EID: 77952588130     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/12/N01     Document Type: Article

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