Optical-CT gel-dosimetry II: Optical artifacts and geometrical distortion

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1093-1104

  Oldham, Mark ^a   Kim, Leonard ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

3D dosimetry; Gel dosimetry; Optical CT; Polymer gel

Indexed keywords

BOTTLES; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; NEEDLES; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; GEL DOSIMETRY; OPTICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL CT; PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; POLYMER GELS; REFLECTION AND REFRACTIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 2442649031     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1655710     Document Type: Article

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