Fluoroscopic study of tumor motion due to breathing: Facilitating precise radiation therapy for lung cancer patients
- 13 September 2001
- journal article
- radiation therapy-physics
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 28 (9) , 1850-1856
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.1398037
Abstract
Target motion due to breathing is one of the major obstacles in dose escalation of radiation therapy to some tumors in the thoracoabdominal region. The development of beam gating or target motion tra...Keywords
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