Improving 4D plan quality for PBS-based liver tumour treatments by combining online image guided beam gating with rescanning.

In conclusion, our results suggest image guided beam gating, combined with rescanning, is a feasible, effective and efficient motion mitigation approach for PBS-based liver tumour treatments. PMID: 26439493 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26439493?dopt=Abstract

Source: Physics in Medicine and Biology - October 6, 2015 Category: Physics Authors: Zhang Y, Knopf AC, Weber DC, Lomax AJ Tags: Phys Med Biol Source Type: research