An investigation into the range dependence of target delineation strategies for stereotactic lung radiotherapy

An investigation into the range dependence of target delineation strategies for stereotactic lung radiotherapy

Abstract Background The “gold standard” approach for defining an internal target volume (ITV) is using 10 gross tumor volume (GTV) phases delineated over the course of one respiratory cycle. However, different sites have adopted several alternative techniques which compress all temporal information...

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Main Authors: Dennis J. Mohatt, John M. Keim, Mathew C. Greene, Ami Patel-Yadav, Jorge A. Gomez, Harish K. Malhotra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
Stereotactic body radiotherapy
Four dimensional computed tomography
Average intensity projection
Maximum intensity projection
Dice similarity coefficient
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-017-0907-8

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