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Practice Guideline
. 2013 May;54(3):561-8.
doi: 10.1093/jrr/rrs122. Epub 2012 Dec 13.

Guidelines for respiratory motion management in radiation therapy

Yukinori Matsuo  1 , Hiroshi Onishi, Keiichi Nakagawa, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Takaki Ariji, Yu Kumazaki, Munefumi Shimbo, Naoki Tohyama, Teiji Nishio, Masahiko Okumura, Hiroki Shirato, Masahiro Hiraoka; Japan Conformal External Beam Radiotherapy Group; Japan Society of Medical Physics; Japan Society of Medical Physics; Japanese Society of Radiological Technology
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Practice Guideline

Guidelines for respiratory motion management in radiation therapy

Yukinori Matsuo et al. J Radiat Res. 2013 May.

Abstract

Respiratory motion management (RMM) systems in external and stereotactic radiotherapies have been developed in the past two decades. Japanese medical service fee regulations introduced reimbursement for RMM from April 2012. Based on thorough discussions among the four academic societies concerned, these Guidelines have been developed to enable staff (radiation oncologists, radiological technologists, medical physicists, radiotherapy quality managers, radiation oncology nurses, and others) to apply RMM to radiation therapy for tumors subject to respiratory motion, safely and appropriately.

Keywords: guideline; radiotherapy; respiratory motion; respiratory motion management.

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