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Investigation Of Respiratory Motion Management Techniques For Proton And Photon Radiotherapy Of Lung Cancer, Jason E. Matney
Investigation Of Respiratory Motion Management Techniques For Proton And Photon Radiotherapy Of Lung Cancer, Jason E. Matney
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Protons as a source of therapeutic radiation can provide a substantial improvement over dose distributions that can be achieved with conventional sources of radiation such as high-energy photons. However, respiratory motion can significantly impact the delivered proton and photon dose distributions during lung cancer radiotherapy. The goals of this dissertation research were to evaluate the impact of respiratory motion and to estimate the benefit of respiratory gating for passively scattered proton therapy (PSPT) and intensity modulated photon therapy (IMRT).
The first aim of this project was to determine the impact of respiratory motion in PSPT and IMRT. Four dimensional dose …