Evaluation of motion mitigation using abdominal compression in the clinical implementation of pencil beam scanning proton therapy of liver tumors
Medical Physics2016Vol. 44(2), pp. 703–712
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Liyong Lin, Kevin Souris, Minglei Kang, Adam Glick, Haibo Lin, Sheng Huang, Kristin Stützer, Guillaume Janssens, Edmond Sterpin, John A. Lee, Timothy D. Solberg, James E. McDonough, Charles B. Simone, Edgar Ben‐Josef
Abstract
A workflow for screening patients' motion characteristics and optimizing beam angle selection was established for the pencil beam scanning proton therapy treatment of liver tumors. Abdominal compression was found to be useful at mitigation of moderate and large motion.
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