Implementation of respiratory-correlated cone-beam CT on Varian linac systems
Respiratory-correlated (4D) X-ray CT scans produce a set of images corresponding to different phases of a patient's breathing cycle. In external beam radiotherapy, information about a tumor's motion due to respiration can be used to optimize a treatment plan, provided the patient can be ac...
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37220 |