A technique for on-board CT reconstruction using both kilovoltage and megavoltage beam projections for 3D treatment verification

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2819-2826

  Yin, Fang Fang ^a,b   Guan, Huaiqun ^a   Lu, Wenkai ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; CT reconstruction; Image guided radiotherapy; Localization; Treatment verification

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CONE-BEAM CT; CT RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; LOCALIZATION; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 25644448237     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1997307     Document Type: Article

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