Reconstruction of biologically equivalent dose distribution on CT-image from measured physical dose distribution of therapeutic beam in water phantom

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 935-945

  Mizota, Manabu ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a   Yusa, Ken ^b   Akagi, Takashi ^c   Shimbo, Munefumi ^d   Yamashita, Haruo ^e   Futami, Yasuyuki ^e   Endo, Masahiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki Hospital   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^e Shizuoka Prefectural Government   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY-ION RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEAVY IONS; IRRADIATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CARBON; WATER;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BIOEQUIVALENCE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAVY ION RADIATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037149479     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/6/306     Document Type: Article

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