Cone-beam CT with megavoltage beams and an amorphous silicon electronic portal imaging device: Potential for verification of radiotherapy of lung cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2913-2924

  Ford, E C ^a   Chang, J ^a   Mueller, K ^b   Sidhu, K ^a   Todor, D ^a   Mageras, G ^a   Yorke, E ^a   Ling, C C ^a   Amols, H ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Electronic portal imaging device (EPID); Megavoltage CT; Partial volume CT; Treatment verification

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

CONE-BEAM CT; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; MEGAVOLTAGE CT; PARTIAL VOLUMES; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEGAVOLTAGE COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX;

EID: 0036918331     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1517614     Document Type: Article

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