Accuracy verification of infrared marker-based dynamic tumor-tracking irradiation using the gimbaled x-ray head of the Vero4DRT (MHI-TM2000)

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Mukumoto, Nobutaka ^a   Nakamura, Mitsuhiro ^a   Sawada, Akira ^a,b   Suzuki, Yasunobu ^c   Takahashi, Kunio ^a,c   Miyabe, Yuki ^a   Kaneko, Shuji ^a,c   Mizowaki, Takashi ^a   Kokubo, Masaki ^d,e   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^d KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

dynamic tumor tracking irradiation; four dimensional image guided radiotherapy; gimbaled x ray head; intrafractional respiratory motion; tracking accuracy

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; IRRADIATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORS; TARGET TRACKING; TUMORS; X RAYS;

GIMBALED X-RAY HEAD; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TRACKING ACCURACY; TUMOR TRACKING;

MOTION TRACKING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERROR; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGEGUIDED RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY UNIT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFRARED RAYS; NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84876190279     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4794506     Document Type: Article

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