First demonstration of intrafractional tumor-tracked irradiation using 2D phantom MR images on a prototype linac-MR

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Yun, Jihyun ^a   Wachowicz, Keith ^a,b   Mackenzie, Marc ^a,b   Rathee, Satyapal ^a,b   Robinson, Don ^a,b   Fallone, B G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

intrafraction motion management; linac MR; lung tumor tracking; MRI guidance; organ motion compensation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; PHANTOMS; TARGET TRACKING; TUMORS;

INTRAFRACTION MOTION; LINAC-MR; LUNG TUMOR; MOTION PREDICTION; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TIME-DIFFERENCES; TRACKING ACCURACY;

MOTION TRACKING;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; GOLD STANDARD; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING PHANTOM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MK II MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TUMOR VOLUME; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICES; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; EQUIPMENT; NEOPLASM;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84877305935     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4802735     Document Type: Article

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