Optimization of the x-ray monitoring angle for creating a correlation model between internal and external respiratory signals

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 6309-6315

  Akimoto, Mami ^a   Nakamura, Mitsuhiro ^a   Mukumoto, Nobutaka ^a   Yamada, Masahiro ^a   Ueki, Nami ^a   Matsuo, Yukinori ^a   Sawada, Akira ^a,b   Mizowaki, Takashi ^a   Kokubo, Masaki ^c,d   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

dynamic tumor tracking irradiation; monitoring angle; optimization; water equivalent path length

Indexed keywords

GOLD; IRRADIATION; MONITORING; O RINGS; OPTIMIZATION; TUMORS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CORRELATION MODELING; DIMENSIONAL POSITION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL (4D) MODELING; HIGH-DENSITY STRUCTURES; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TUMOR TRACKING; WATER EQUIVALENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867313917     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4754648     Document Type: Article

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