Portal image contrast enhancement

Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-28

  Shirazi, Alireza ^a   Mahdavi, Seled Rabie ^b   Sardari, Dariush ^c   Sadri, Lida ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Imaging tool box; MATLAB; Portal imaging; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COBALT THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MASTECTOMY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SOFT TISSUE; THORAX; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33845337340     PISSN: 15071367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1507-1367(06)71046-X     Document Type: Article

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