Dosimetric comparison of treatment plans based on free breathing, maximum, and average intensity projection CTs for lung cancer SBRT

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2754-2760

  Tian, Yuan ^a,b   Wang, Zhiheng ^a   Ge, Hong ^a,c   Zhang, Tian ^a   Cai, Jing ^a   Kelsey, Christopher ^a   Yoo, David ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Department of Anesthesia   (China)

Author keywords

4DCT; average intensity projection; lung cancer; maximum intensity projection; stereotactic body radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY;

4DCT; AVERAGE INTENSITY PROJECTION; LUNG CANCER; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ISRAEL TURKEY MENINGOENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 84861628779     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4705353     Document Type: Article

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