Treating patients with real-time tumor tracking using the Vero gimbaled linac system: Implementation and first review

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 343-351

  Depuydt, Tom ^a,b,c   Poels, Kenneth ^b   Verellen, Dirk ^a,b   Engels, Benedikt ^a   Collen, Christine ^a   Buleteanu, Manuela ^a   Van Den Begin, Robbe ^a   Boussaer, Marlies ^a   Duchateau, Michael ^a   Gevaert, Thierry ^a   Storme, Guy ^a,b   De Ridder, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Organ motion; Stereotactic body radiation therapy; Tumor tracking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PET-CT SCANNER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; REAL TIME TUMOR TRACKING; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84910145347     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.05.017     Document Type: Article

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