Validation of the mid-position strategy for lung tumors in helical TomoTherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 529-537

  Wanet, Marie ^a   Sterpin, Edmond ^a   Janssens, Guillaume ^a   Delor, Antoine ^b   Lee, John Aldo ^a   Geets, Xavier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Geometric uncertainties; Lung cancer; Monte Carlo simulation; TomoTherapy; Tumor motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MID POSITION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGANS AT RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BREATHING; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION;

EID: 84899551877     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.10.025     Document Type: Article

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