Correction of conebeam CT values using a planning CT for derivation of the "dose of the day"

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-200

  van Zijtveld, Mathilda ^a   Dirkx, Maarten ^a   Heijmen, Ben ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conebeam CT; Dose reconstruction; Hounsfield Units; IMRT QA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONEBEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 36348944594     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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