Just-in-time tomography (JiTT): A new concept for image-guided radiation therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2005, Pages

  Pang, G ^a,b   Rowlands, J A ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CBCT); JUST-IN-TIME TOMOGRAPHY (JITT); RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT; SOFT-TISSUES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAYS;

EID: 27144431636     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/21/N05     Document Type: Article

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