The impact of dental metal artifacts on head and neck IMRT dose distributions

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 198-202

  Kim, Yusung ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a,b   Bal, Matthieu ^c   McNutt, Todd R ^d   Spies, Lothar ^c  

^a Department of Medical Physics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Metal artifacts; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL AND DENTAL MATERIALS; METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ARTIFACTS; DENTAL MATERIALS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745080243     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.03.022     Document Type: Article

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