Maximum likelihood as a common computational framework in tomotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3277-3294

  Olivera, G H ^a,b   Shepard, D M ^a   Reckwerdt, P J ^a   Ruchala, K ^a   Zachman, J ^a   Fitchard, E E ^a   Mackie, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA ROSARIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031741772     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/11/008     Document Type: Article

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