Open AccessA 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
Author(s) -
Thomas Samuel Ram,
R.K. Badkul,
Sanjay Maraboyina,
Fen Wang
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.87029
Subject(s) - medicine , cone beam ct , cone beam computed tomography , nuclear medicine , stereotactic radiotherapy , radiation therapy , margin (machine learning) , image guided radiation therapy , population , stereotactic radiation therapy , radiosurgery , computed tomography , radiology , computer science , environmental health , machine learning
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.