Applications of simulator computed tomography number for photon dose calculations during radiotherapy treatment planning

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-73

  Chu, James C H ^a   Ni, Ben ^a   Kriz, Robert ^b   Amod Saxena, V ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Computed tomography number; Dose calculation; Simulator; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LIGHT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034175732     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(00)00159-6     Document Type: Article

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