A comparative study to evaluate the efficacy of on board imaging with cone beam CT using target registration in patients with lung tumors undergoing stereotactic body radiation therapy and comparison with ExacTrac using skeletal registration on Novalis Tx.

Background: Stereotactic body radiation therapy is an advanced technique, which delivers ablative doses to lung lesions. Target verification is done either by orthogonal x-rays or cone beam CT. This study was undertaken to compare these two verification methods. Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of Exac...

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Publicado en:Journal of Cancer Research & Therapeutics Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 304 - 308
Autores principales: Ram TS, Badkul R, Maraboyina S, Wang F, Ram, Thomas S, Badkul, Rajeev, Maraboyina, Sanjay, Wang, Fen
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer India Pvt Ltd Jul-Sep2011
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