Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 87, Issue 1 , Pages 44-48 , April 2008

Esophagus and spinal cord motion relative to GTV motion in four-dimensional CTs of lung cancer patients

  • Elisabeth Weiss

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Göttingen, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Elisabeth Weiss, Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 College Street, P.O. Box 980058, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
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  • Krishni Wijesooriya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    • ,
  • Paul Keall

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, CA, USA

Received 6 August 2007 ,Revised 27 November 2007 ,Accepted 11 December 2007.

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PII: S0167-8140(07)00666-4

doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.12.016

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 87, Issue 1 , Pages 44-48 , April 2008

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