Respiratory gated radiotherapy-pretreatment patient specific quality assurance

Respiratory gated radiotherapy-pretreatment patient specific quality assurance

Organ motions during inter-fraction and intra-fraction radiotherapy introduce errors in dose delivery, irradiating excess of normal tissue, and missing target volume. Lung and heart involuntary motions cause above inaccuracies and gated dose delivery try to overcome above effects. Present work attem...

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Main Authors: Rajesh Thiyagarajan, Sujit Nath Sinha, Ramamoorthy Ravichandran, Kothandaraman Samuvel, Girigesh Yadav, Ashok Kumar Sigamani, Vikraman Subramani, N Arunai Nambi Raj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Medical Physics
Subjects:
Gated dose delivery
pretreatment quality assurance
respiratory gating
three-dimensional imaging
Online Access:http://www.jmp.org.in/article.asp?issn=0971-6203;year=2016;volume=41;issue=1;spage=65;epage=70;aulast=Thiyagarajan

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