Effects of breathing variation on gating window internal target volume in respiratory gated radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3927-3934

  Cai, Jing ^a,b   McLawhorn, Robert ^b   Read, Paul W ^b   Larner, James M ^b   Yin, Fang Fang ^a   Benedict, Stanley H ^b   Sheng, Ke ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

4DCT; dynamic MRI; internal target volume; residual tumor motion; respiratory gated radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PHANTOMS; RADIATION EFFECTS; TUMORS;

4DCT; DYNAMIC MRI; DYNAMIC SOFTWARES; INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME; INTERNAL TARGETS; MOTION TRAJECTORIES; POTENTIAL ERRORS; RESIDUAL TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149476733     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3457329     Document Type: Article

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