Monitoring of breathing motion in image-guided PBS proton therapy: comparative analysis of optical and electromagnetic technologies

Monitoring of breathing motion in image-guided PBS proton therapy: comparative analysis of optical and electromagnetic technologies

Abstract Background Motion monitoring is essential when treating non-static tumours with pencil beam scanned protons. 4D medical imaging typically relies on the detected body surface displacement, considered as a surrogate of the patient's anatomical changes, a concept similarly applied by most...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Fattori, Sairos Safai, Pablo Fernández Carmona, Marta Peroni, Rosalind Perrin, Damien Charles Weber, Antony John Lomax
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-03-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
Respiratory motion
Optical tracking
Electromagnetic tracking
Proton therapy
Gantry
CT imaging
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-017-0797-9

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