title: Guidelines for respiratory motion management in radiation therapy.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology and Image-applied Therapy, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawaharacho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
authors.forename: Yukinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuo
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Onishi
authors.forename: Keiichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Mitsuhiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Takaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ariji
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kumazaki
authors.forename: Munefumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimbo
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tohyama
authors.forename: Teiji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishio
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okumura
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shirato
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hiraoka
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009068:Movement; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D056888:Patient Positioning / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D018787:Radiation Oncology / Q000592:standards*; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000592:standards*; D020266:Radiotherapy, Conformal / Q000592:standards*; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics