Institutional experience of using active breathing control for paediatric and teenage patients receiving thoraco-abdominal radiotherapy

Institutional experience of using active breathing control for paediatric and teenage patients receiving thoraco-abdominal radiotherapy

Introduction: Active Breathing Control (ABC) is a motion management strategy that facilitates reproducible breath-hold for thoracic radiotherapy (RT), which may reduce radiation dose to organs at risk (OARs). Reduction of radiation-induced toxicity is of high importance in younger patients. However,...

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Main Authors: Jessica Gough, Sarah Mowat, Lindsay Sellman, Kim Robinson, Matthew Youings, Henry Mandeville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-03-01
Series:Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
ABC
active breathing control
paediatric radiotherapy
thoracic radiotherapy
motion management
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405630822001331

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