A quality assurance program for the on-board imager®

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4431-4447

  Yoo, Sua ^a   Kim, Gwe Ya ^b   Hammoud, Rabih ^c   Elder, Eric ^d   Pawlicki, Todd ^b   Guan, Huaiqun ^c   Fox, Timothy ^d   Luxton, Gary ^b   Yin, Fang Fang ^a   Munro, Peter ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Vanan Medical System   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; On board imager; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CLINICAL OPERATIONS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; CONTRAST RESOLUTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FUNCTIONALITY TESTS; MECHANICAL ACCURACY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GATED IMAGING; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAFETY;

EID: 33750568952     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2362872     Document Type: Article

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