Enhanced 4D cone-beam CT with inter-phase motion model

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3688-3695

  Li, Tianfang ^a   Koong, Albert ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Cone beam; IGRT; On board imager; Organ motion

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ACQUISITION TIME; ALIASING ARTIFACTS; CONE BEAM; IGRT; INTERNAL MOTION; MOTION MODELING; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; ORGAN MOTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 34548314251     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2767144     Document Type: Article

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