Analysis of Cardiac Motion without Respiratory Motion for Cardiac Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Motion Estimation Model for Cardiac and Respiratory Motion Compensation

Catheter ablation is widely accepted as the best remaining option for the treatment of atrial fibrillation if drug therapy fails. Ablation procedures can be guided by 3-D overlay images projected onto live fluoroscopic X-ray images. These overlay images are generated from either MR, CT or C-Arm CT volumes. As the alignment of the overlay is often compromised by cardiac and respiratory motion, m...

Tumor Motion Analysis Using Cine-MV in Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Tumor Motion Analysis Using Cine-MV in Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy by Fan Zhang Graduate Program in Medical Physics Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Jing Cai, Supervisor ___________________________ Fang-fang Yin, Chair ___________________________ William Paul Segars An abstract of a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the req...

Compensation of Respiratory Motion in Cardiac Imaging

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Song and colleagues deliver a thorough and fair review of the initial clinical investigations of a new paradigm in radiotherapy most recently called stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).[1] Oncology observers may take exception with the use of the designation “new paradigm.” After all, from a tumor control point of view, skeptics might say, “radiotherapy is radiotherapy.” Recent advances ...

Stereotactic body radiation therapy.

Stereotactic body radiation therapy constitutes an emerging therapeutic paradigm. These treatments are unique relative to the large body of experience with conventional fractionated radiotherapy. On the basis of the treatment principles of intracranial stereotactic radiation combined with enhancements associated with immobilization and imaging, the role of extracranial treatment continues to ev...