Dynamic volume vs respiratory correlated 4DCT for motion assessment in radiation therapy simulation

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2669-2681

  Coolens, Catherine ^a,b   Bracken, John ^a   Driscoll, Brandon ^a   Hope, Andrew ^a,b   Jaffray, David ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

computed tomography; motion; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; IMAGE QUALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; SCANNING; TUMORS;

BREATHING MOTIONS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DOSE MEASUREMENT; MOTION; PATIENT BREATHING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RESPIRATION SIGNALS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861643232     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4704498     Document Type: Article

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