A quantitative image quality comparison of four different image guided radiotherapy devices

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-24

  Stützel, Julia ^a   Oelfke, Uwe ^a   Nill, Simeon ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image quality; kVCBCT; MVCBCT; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOFT TISSUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38149067615     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.10.035     Document Type: Article

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