Enlarged longitudinal dose profiles in cone-beam CT and the need for modified dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1061-1069

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Endo, Masahiro ^a   Nishizawa, Kanae ^a   Tsunoo, Takanori ^a   Aoyama, Takahiko ^b   Fujiwara, Hideaki ^c   Murase, Kenya ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Dose profile; Dose profile integral (DPI); Scattered radiation

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; INTEGRATION; PHANTOMS; SCANNING;

CONE-BEAM CT; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; DOSE PROFILE; IF INTEGRATION; PERIPHERAL POSITIONS; PIN PHOTODIODE; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; SENSITIVE REGIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; ROTATION; SENSOR; THICKNESS;

EID: 17844409887     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1877852     Document Type: Article

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