2017_SBRT_Course Book

Respiratory Motion Amplitudes

Free breathing liver motion, average + range (mm):

Publication

CC

AP

LR

Px

Method

Suramo 1984

25 [10 – 40] Deep: 55 [30 – 80] 10 [5 – 17] Deep: 37 [25 – 57]

50 Ultrasound

Davies 1994

< 2

< 2

9 Ultrasound

Kitamura 2003

9 [2 – 19]

5 [2 – 12]

4 [ 1 – 12] 20 Fluoroscopy + markers

Dawson 2005

16 [7 – 35]

10 [4 – 21]

8 [4 – 16]

32 MRI

Wunderink 2008

11 [4 – 39]

4 [1 – 12]

2 [1 – 4]

9 Fluoroscopy + markers

Slide courtesy of W. Wunderink