Comparison of multi-leaf collimator tracking and treatment-couch tracking during stereotactic body radiation therapy of prostate cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: MLC and couch tracking at a conventional linear accelerator significantly improved the accuracy of prostate SBRT in the presence of motion, whereby couch tracking showed slightly better performance than MLC tracking.
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Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - September 18, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Ehrbar S, Schmid S, Jöhl A, Klöck S, Guckenberger M, Riesterer O, Tanadini-Lang S Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research