Systematic evaluation of four-dimensional hybrid depth scanning for carbon-ion lung therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Furukawa, Takuji ^a   Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Zenklusen, Silvan ^a   Nakao, Minoru ^a   Shirai, Toshiyuki ^a   Noda, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

carbon ion beam; intrafractional motion; pencil beam scanning; radiotherapy; respiratory

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARBON; ION BEAMS; IONS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

CARBON ION BEAMS; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; INTRAFRACTIONAL MOTION; PENCIL BEAM; PHASE-CONTROLLED TECHNIQUE; RESPIRATORY; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION;

SCANNING;

ION;

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; DOSE CALCULATION; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYBRID; ION THERAPY; LUNG CANCER; MOTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; RESPIRATORY CARE; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SYNCHROTRON; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; VELOCITY; VOLUMETRY; BREATHING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RESPIRATION;

EID: 84874775211     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4792295     Document Type: Article

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