Frequency filtering based analysis on the cardiac induced lung tumor motion and its impact on the radiotherapy management

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
10918497	Radiotherapy and Oncology	2014	6 Pages	PDF

Abstract

The tumor motion of thoracic cancer patients is influenced by both heart and respiratory motion. The cardiac impact is relatively more significant for tumor with less motion, which may lead to clinically significant uncertainty in radiotherapy for some patients.

Keywords

frequency analysis Lung tumor Deformable image registration Respiratory motion Cardiac motion Fluoroscopy

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Frequency filtering based analysis on the cardiac induced lung tumor motion and its impact on the radiotherapy management

Authors

Ting Chen, Songbing Qin, Xiaoting Xu, Salma K. Jabbour, Bruce G. Haffty, Ning J. Yue,