Adoption of respiratory motion management in radiation therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

A survey on the patterns of practice of respiratory motion management (MM) was distributed to 111 radiation therapy facilities to inform the development of an end-to-end dosimetry audit including respiratory motion.

Materials and methods

The survey (distributed via REDCap) asked facilities to provide information specific to the combinations of MM techniques (breath-hold gating - BHG, internal target volume - ITV, free-breathing gating - FBG, mid-ventilation - MidV, tumour tracking - TT), sites treated (thorax, upper abdomen, lower abdomen), and fractionation regimes (conventional, stereotactic ablative body radiation therapy - SABR) used in their clinic.

Results

The survey was completed by 78% of facilities, with 98% of respondents indicating th

SUBMITTER: Burton A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9485913 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature