Patient dose considerations for routine megavoltage cone-beam CT imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1819-1827

  Morin, Olivier ^a,b   Gillis, Amy ^a   Descovich, Martina ^a   Chen, Josephine ^a   Aubin, Michèle ^a   Aubry, Jean François ^a   Chen, Hong ^a   Gottschalk, Alexander R ^a   Xia, Ping ^a,b   Pouliot, Jean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided radiation therapy; Megavoltage cone beam CT; Patient dose compensation

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS; DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; MEGAVOLTAGE CONE-BEAM CT; PATIENT DOSE; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; MONITOR; PELVIS CANCER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 34247565210     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2722470     Document Type: Article

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