Megavoltage cone-beam CT: System description and clinical applications

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-61

  Morin, Olivier ^b   Gillis, Amy ^b   Chen, Josephine ^b   Aubin, Michèle ^b   Bucci, M Kara ^b   Roach III, Mack ^b   Pouliot, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

External beam; Image guided radiation therapy; MV cone beam CT; Radiotherapy imaging

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG TUMOR; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; SOFT TISSUE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644932630     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2005.12.009     Document Type: Article

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