Reliability of ITV approach to varying treatment fraction time: a retrospective analysis based on 2D cine MR images

Abstract Background Internal Target Volume (ITV) is one of the most common strategies to passively manage tumour motion in Radiotherapy (RT). The reliability of this approach is based on the assumption that the tumour motion estimated during pre-treatment 4D Computed Tomography (CT) acquisition is r...

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Main Authors: Davide Cusumano, Jennifer Dhont, Luca Boldrini, Giuditta Chiloiro, Angela Romano, Claudio Votta, Silvia Longo, Lorenzo Placidi, Luigi Azario, Marco De Spirito, Dirk Verellen, Vincenzo Valentini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-020-01530-6