A CCD-based optical CT scanner for high-resolution 3D imaging of radiation dose distributions: Equipment specifications, optical simulations and preliminary results

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 3191-3213

  Doran, Simon J ^a   Koerkamp, Koen Klein ^b   Bero, Mamdouh A ^a   Jenneson, Paul ^a   Morton, Edward J ^a   Gilboy, Walter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DOSIMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCANNING;

OPTICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (OCT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

IRON COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPOSURE; GEL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; X RAY;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0035739240     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/12/309     Document Type: Article

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