The calibration of CT Hounsfield units for radiotherapy treatment planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 111-124

  Schneider, Uwe ^a,b   Pedroni, Eros ^c   Lomax, Antony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 0030065290     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/1/009     Document Type: Article

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