Digital tomosynthesis (DTS) for verification of target position in early stage lung cancer patients

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Van Sörnsen De Koste, John R ^a   Dahele, Max ^a   Mostafavi, Hassan ^b   Senan, Suresh ^a   Van Der Weide, Lineke ^a   Slotman, Ben J ^a   Verbakel, Wilko F A R ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

CBCT; DTS; early stage lung cancer; IGRT; intrafraction monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; TRIANGULATION;

AVERAGE INTENSITY PROJECTION; CBCT; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY-STAGE LUNG CANCERS; IGRT; INTRAFRACTION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LUNG CANCER; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY EQUIPMENT; REGISTRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TRIANGULATION; TUMOR POSITION; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED;

EID: 84883822463     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4817245     Document Type: Article

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