Evaluation of on-board kV cone beam CT (CBCT)-based dose calculation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 685-705

  Yang, Yong ^a   Schreibmann, Eduard ^a   Li, Tianfang ^a   Wang, Chuang ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

CLINICAL TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; DOSE CALCULATIONS; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT GEOMETRIC MODELS;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

ACCURACY; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; NEOPLASM; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34047264975     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/3/011     Document Type: Article

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