The potential for image guided radiation therapy with cobalt-60 tomotherapy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 2879, Issue PART 2, 2003, Pages 449-456

  Schreiner, L John ^a,b   Kerr, Andrew ^a,b   Salomons, Greg ^a   Dyck, Christine ^d   Hajdok, George ^c  

^a Cancer Centre of South Eastern Ontario   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DOSIMETRY; IN SITU PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTONS; PLANNING; TUMORS; X RAYS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; RADIOTHERAPY;

EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION BEAMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; MEGAVOLTAGE CT IMAGING; NEW APPROACHES; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES;

RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0344823959     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39903-2_55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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