Evaluation of three types of reference image data for external beam radiotherapy target localization using digital tomosynthesis (DTS)

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3374-3384

  Godfrey, Devon J ^a   Ren, Lei ^a   Yan, Hui ^a   Wu, Q ^a   Yoo, Sua ^a   Oldham, M ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CBCT; IGRT; Localization; Mutual information; On board imaging; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CBCT; IGRT; LOCALIZATION; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; ON BOARD IMAGING; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 34547413067     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2756941     Document Type: Article

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