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Ways of dealing with tumours that move as the patient breathes: image the motion, treat only in part of the breathing cycle, hold the breath, or chase the tumour with the beam.
Lung, liver, pancreas and breast targets move by a centimetre or more with breathing. Four-dimensional CT captures the motion so the target volume can include it or be defined at one phase; respiratory gating switches the beam on only during that phase; deep-inspiration breath-hold freezes the anatomy and, in left breast treatment, moves the heart away from the beam; and real-time tracking with fiducial markers or MRI moves the beam or couch with the tumour. Motion management is what makes stereotactic body radiotherapy safe for small mobile targets.
Measure or constrain respiratory motion so the planned dose lands on the target rather than on the tissue it moves through.
Query for this technology: (TITLE:"Respiratory motion management" OR ABSTRACT:"Respiratory motion management" OR TITLE:"4D-CT, gating, breath-hold, tracking" OR ABSTRACT:"4D-CT, gating, breath-hold, tracking") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about Respiratory motion management (4D-CT, gating, breath-hold, tracking), not a curated reading list.
Shares C-RAD, Vision RT, Deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH), C-arm medical linear accelerators (TrueBeam, Versa HD and others) and the tag radiation-wave1.
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Shares C-arm medical linear accelerators (TrueBeam, Versa HD and others), IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam) and the tag radiation-wave1.
Shares C-arm medical linear accelerators (TrueBeam, Versa HD and others), IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam) and the tag radiation-wave1.
Shares C-arm medical linear accelerators (TrueBeam, Versa HD and others), IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam) and the tag radiation-wave1.
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Shares IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam), Non-small-cell lung cancer and the tag radiation-wave1.
Shares C-arm medical linear accelerators (TrueBeam, Versa HD and others) and the tag radiation-wave1.