Design and evaluation of a variable aperture collimator for conformal radiotherapy of small animals using a microCT scanner

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4359-4367

  Graves, Edward E ^a   Zhou, Hu ^a   Chatterjee, Raja ^a   Keall, Paul J ^a   Gambhir, Sanjiv Sam ^b   Contag, Christopher H ^b   Boyer, Arthur L ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Small animal imaging; X ray collimation; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; SCANNING; TRANSMISSIONS;

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION; TRANSMISSION PROFILES; X-RAY COLLIMATION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

X RAYS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; SIMULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 35648929294     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2789498     Document Type: Article

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