Calibration of CT hounsfield units for radiotherapy treatment planning of patients with metallic hip prostheses: The use of the extended CT-scale

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1591-1603

  Coolens, C ^a   Childs, P J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROSTHETICS; STOICHIOMETRY;

RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; HIP PROSTHESIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STOICHIOMETRY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PELVIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037833706     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/11/308     Document Type: Article

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