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Retrospective evaluation of visually monitored deep inspiration breath hold for breast cancer patients using edge detection

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World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, June 7-12, 2015, Toronto, Canada

Part of the book series: IFMBE Proceedings ((IFMBE,volume 51))

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Purpose: Deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) can reduce cardiac dose during left-sided breast cancer radiotherapy. This study uses cine imaging with edge detection to evaluate a visually-monitored DIBH technique (VM-DIBH)

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  1. Department of Medical Physics, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, Canada

    L. Conroy, S. Quirk & W. L. Smith

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    L. Conroy, S. Quirk & W. L. Smith

  3. Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    R. Yeung, T. Phan & W. L. Smith

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  1. Techna Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Conroy, L., Yeung, R., Quirk, S., Phan, T., Smith, W.L. (2015). Retrospective evaluation of visually monitored deep inspiration breath hold for breast cancer patients using edge detection. In: Jaffray, D. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, June 7-12, 2015, Toronto, Canada. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 51. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19387-8_143

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