A computational method for estimating the dosimetric effect of intra-fraction motion on step-and-shoot IMRT and compensator plans

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4187-4202

  Waghorn, Ben J ^a   Shah, Amish P ^a   Ngwa, Wilfred ^a   Meeks, Sanford L ^a   Moore, Joseph A ^b   Siebers, Jeffrey V ^b   Langen, Katja M ^a  

^a M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; CT VOLUME; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; DOSE DELIVERY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE-VOLUME; DOSIMETRIC IMPACT; FLUENCES; GAMMA ANALYSIS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MOTION TRACK; MOVING BODY; ORGAN MOTION; PASS RATE; RIGID MOTIONS; STEP-AND-SHOOT; STEP-FUNCTION SHIFTS; TARGET POSITION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLADDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILM DOSIMETER; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECTUM; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILM DOSIMETRY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 77958180913     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/14/015     Document Type: Article

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