The measurement of proton stopping power using proton-cone-beam computed tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 511-528

  Zygmanski, Piotr ^a   Gall, Kenneth P ^b,c   Rabin, Monroe S Z ^a   Rosenthal, Stanley J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION SCATTERING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; X RAY;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033968791     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/2/317     Document Type: Article

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