Motion as a perturbation: Measurement-guided dose estimates to moving patient voxels during modulated arc deliveries

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Feygelman, Vladimir ^a   Stambaugh, Cassandra ^b   Zhang, Geoffrey ^a   Hunt, Dylan ^a   Opp, Daniel ^a   Wolf, Theresa K ^c   Nelms, Benjamin E ^d  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Live Oak Technologies LLC   (United States)

^d Canis Lupus LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

4D dose reconstruction; dosimetry; interplay; motion; rotational therapy; VMAT QA

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPLAY; MOTION; ROTATIONAL THERAPY; VMAT QA;

MOTION TRACKING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; IMAGING PHANTOM; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); RADIATION DOSE; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873583102     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4773887     Document Type: Article

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