Respiratory gating during stereotactic body radiotherapy for lung cancer reduces tumor position variability.

We evaluated the effects of respiratory gating on treatment accuracy in lung cancer patients undergoing lung stereotactic body radiotherapy by using electronic portal imaging device (EPID) images.Our study population consisted of 30 lung cancer patients treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy (4...

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Main Authors: Tetsuo Saito, Tomohiko Matsuyama, Ryo Toya, Yoshiyuki Fukugawa, Takamasa Toyofuku, Akiko Semba, Natsuo Oya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4224502?pdf=render