Four-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography using an on-board imager

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3825-3833

  Li, Tianfang ^a   Xing, Lei ^a   Munro, Peter ^b   McGuinness, Christopher ^a   Chao, Ming ^a   Yang, Yong ^a   Loo, Bill ^a   Koong, Albert ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Cone beam; IGRT; On board imager; Organ motion

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PATIENT TREATMENT; SCANNING;

CONE BEAM; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION PROTOCOL; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; IGRT; ORGAN MOTION; PATIENT RADIATION DOSE; TARGET LOCALIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33749387058     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2349692     Document Type: Article

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