Patient dose and image quality from mega-voltage cone beam computed tomography imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 499-506

  Gayou, Olivier ^a   Parda, David S ^a   Johnson, Mark ^a   Miften, Moyed ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Dosimetric measurements; Image quality; MV CBCT; Patient dose

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TISSUE;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; MV-CBCT; PATIENT DOSE; PATIENT RADIATION DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33846624185     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2428407     Document Type: Article

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