Improving functional avoidance radiation therapy by image registration

Radiation therapy (RT) is commonly used to treat patients with lung cancer. One of the limitations of RT is that irradiation of the surrounding healthy lung tissues during RT may cause damage to the lungs. Radiation-induced pulmonary toxicity may be mitigated by minimizing doses to high-function lun...

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Main Author: Shao, Wei
Other Authors: Christensen, Gary Edward
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2019
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/7031
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8532&context=etd