A study on the dosimetric accuracy of treatment planning for stereotactic body radiation therapy of lung cancer using average and maximum intensity projection images

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-54

  Huang, Long ^a   Park, Kwangyoul ^a   Boike, Thomas ^a   Lee, Pam ^a   Papiez, Lech ^a   Solberg, Timothy ^a   Ding, Chuxiong ^a   Timmerman, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4DCT; Dosimetry; Lung cancer; MIP; Stereotactic body radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FILM DOSIMETER; LUNG CANCER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77953960975     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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