Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 134-140 , Summer 2006

Localizing moving targets and organs using motion-managed CTs

  • Edward D. Brandner, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Edward D. Brandner, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, UPSOM, Pittsburgh, PA 15232.
    • ,
  • Dwight Heron, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Andrew Wu, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiologic Science, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
    • ,
  • M. Saiful Huq, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Ning J. Yue, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Hungcheng Chen, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

,Accepted 21 December 2005.

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PII: S0958-3947(05)00203-7

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2005.12.012

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 134-140 , Summer 2006

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