Dose verification for respiratory-gated volumetric modulated arc therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 4827-4838

  Qian, Jianguo ^a   Xing, Lei ^a   Liu, Wu ^a,b   Luxton, Gary ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL OPERATIONS; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; DOSE VERIFICATION; FLATTENING FILTERS; GERMANY; HIGH DOSE RATE; HIGH PRECISION; ION CHAMBER ARRAYS; NEW MODALITY; PATIENT BREATHING; PERIODIC MOTION; REGULAR MOTION; TREATMENT PLANS; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE; TUMORS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; TIME;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79961060294     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/15/013     Document Type: Article

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