The electronic portal imaging system Siemens Beamview Plus® versus the conventional verification films CEA-TVS® and DuPont CQL-7®: A critical appraisal of visual image quality

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 178, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 446-452

  Gagel, Bernd ^a   Schramm, Oliver ^b   Harms, Wolfgang ^b   Mulhern, Andrew ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^d   Van Kampen, Michael ^c   Wannenmacher, Michael ^b   Eble, Michael J ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Nordwest Hospital Frankfurt   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic portal imaging devices (EPID); Verification image; Visual image quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER; DEVICE; ELECTRONICS; FILM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; RETINA IMAGE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ARTIFACTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 0036338786     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-002-0964-1     Document Type: Article

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