학술논문

Deep inspiration breath hold radiotherapy of lung cancer: The good, the bad and the ugly case.
Document Type
Article
Source
Acta Oncologica. Oct2014, Vol. 53 Issue 10, p1446-1448. 3p. 3 Color Photographs.
Subject
*ADENOCARCINOMA
*COMPUTED tomography
*LUNG cancer
*METASTASIS
Language
ISSN
0284-186X
Abstract
The article discusses the treatment for deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH), focusing on radiotherapy. It describes a study conducted on three patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Illustrations depicting the increased lung volume in DIBH, and increased constraints of lung tissues due to midventilation computed tomography (CT) scan are presented.