4D VMAT, gated VMAT, and 3D VMAT for stereotactic body radiation therapy in lung

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 749-770

  Chin, E ^a,b   Loewen, S K ^a,b   Nichol, A ^a,b   Otto, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B-SPLINE TRANSFORMATIONS; CT DATA; CT IMAGE; DOSE ESCALATION; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; HEALTHY TISSUES; LUNG CANCER; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; ORGAN AT RISKS; PATIENT BREATHING; PLAN QUALITY; RESPIRATORY CYCLE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TARGET MOTIONS; TISSUE MOTION; TOTAL DOSE; TREATMENT PLANS; TREATMENT TIME; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TISSUE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOSURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873679711     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/4/749     Document Type: Article

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