The spine and carina as a surrogate for target registration in cone-beam CT imaging verification in locally advanced lung cancer radiotherapy

Abstract

The aim of the study was to evaluate the accuracy of volumetric lung image guidance using the spine or carina as a surrogate to target for image registration, as the best approach is not established.

Keywords

• locally advanced lung cancer
• volumetric image verification
• tumour registration
• carina registration
• spine registration
• adaptive radiotherapy