Physical evaluation of CT scan methods for radiation therapy planning: Comparison of fast, slow and gating scan using the 256-detector row CT scanner

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 587-600

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Kanematsu, Nobuyuki ^a   Mizuno, Hideyuki ^a   Sunaoka, Masayoshi ^b   Endo, Masahiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY THERAPY; TOXICITY;

DOSE DISTRIBUTION; FAST-SCAN CT (FSCT); RESPIRATORY-GATED CT (RGCT); SLOW-ROTATION CT SCANNING (SSCT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 31344477074     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/3/008     Document Type: Article

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