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How do you assess whether a patient will be a good DIBH candidate for lung or abdomen treatments?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Louisville

Assessments are made at the time of simulation. Every patient has a motion assessment performed to determine the degree of motion management required. Typically, if a patient has >1 cm of motion, we will determine if DIBH is appropriate.

Patients undergo a coaching protocol using audio/visual feedb...

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Radiation Oncology · City of Hope

It has taken me some time to accept DIBH and tend to lean towards EEBH only because I have seen more difficulty with reproducibility with DIBH. There are definitely situations where DIBH may be beneficial (i.e, pushing a primary away from the heart), but at least for me, I am still a bit hesitant do...

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