TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of image guidance in respiratory gated radiotherapy
AU - Korreman, Stine Sofia
AU - Juhler-Nøttrup, Trine
AU - Fredberg Persson, Gitte
AU - Navrsted Pedersen, Anders
AU - Enmark, Marika
AU - Nystrom, Håkan
AU - Specht, Lena
N1 - Keywords: Breast Neoplasms; Humans; Lung Neoplasms; Respiratory Physiological Phenomena
PY - 2008/1/1
Y1 - 2008/1/1
N2 - Respiratory gating for radiotherapy beam delivery is a widely available technique, manufactured and sold by most of the major radiotherapy machine vendors. Respiratory gated beam delivery is intended to limit the irradiation of tumours moving with respiration to selected parts of the respiratory cycle, and thereby enable dose escalation and/or reduction of dose to organs at risk. Without adequate use of respiratory correlated image guidance on a regular basis, respiratory beam gating may however have a detrimental effect on target coverage. Image guidance of tumour respiratory motion is therefore of utmost importance for the safe introduction of respiratory gating. In this short overview, suitable image guidance strategies for respiratory gated radiotherapy are reviewed for two cancer sites; breast cancer and lung tumours.
AB - Respiratory gating for radiotherapy beam delivery is a widely available technique, manufactured and sold by most of the major radiotherapy machine vendors. Respiratory gated beam delivery is intended to limit the irradiation of tumours moving with respiration to selected parts of the respiratory cycle, and thereby enable dose escalation and/or reduction of dose to organs at risk. Without adequate use of respiratory correlated image guidance on a regular basis, respiratory beam gating may however have a detrimental effect on target coverage. Image guidance of tumour respiratory motion is therefore of utmost importance for the safe introduction of respiratory gating. In this short overview, suitable image guidance strategies for respiratory gated radiotherapy are reviewed for two cancer sites; breast cancer and lung tumours.
U2 - 10.1080/02841860802282786
DO - 10.1080/02841860802282786
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 18622771
SN - 0284-186X
VL - 47
SP - 1390
EP - 1396
JO - Acta Oncologica
JF - Acta Oncologica
IS - 7
ER -