A 4D IMRT planning method using deformable image registration to improve normal tissue sparing with contemporary delivery techniques

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Li, Xiaoqiang ^a   Wang, Xiaochun ^a   Li, Yupeng ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Deform; IMRT; Respiratory motion; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG TUMOR; PRESCRIPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT PLANNING; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAPHRAGM; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAPHRAGM; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION;

EID: 79960556832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-83     Document Type: Article

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