Image-guided radiotherapy using a mobile kilovoltage x-ray device

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-50

  Sorensen, Stephen P ^b   Chow, Phillip E ^b   Kriminski, Sergey ^b   Medin, Paul M ^b   Solberg, Timothy D ^a  

^a NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

C Arm; Cone beam CT; Flat panel; Image guided radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; X RAY;

HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644942690     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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