A bench-top megavoltage fan-beam CT using CdWO4-photodiode detectors. I. System description and detector characterization

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1078-1089

  Rathee, S ^a,b   Tu, D ^a,b   Monajemi, T T ^a,b   Rickey, D W ^c,d   Fallone, B G ^a,b  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detective quantum efficiency; Megavoltage computed tomography; Radiation damage; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DAMAGE DETECTION; EFFICIENCY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZATION; PHOSPHORS; PHOTODIODES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIATION DAMAGE; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; MEGAVOLTAGE; PHOTODIODE DETECTOR; SOURCE-TO-DETECTORS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYSTEM DESCRIPTION;

CORRELATION DETECTORS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEVICE; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RADIATION DOSE; SAMPLING; SCINTILLATION; SOLID; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 33645517867     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2181290     Document Type: Article

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