Megavoltage cone beam digital tomosynthesis (MV-CBDT) for image-guided radiotherapy: A clinical investigational system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 999-1013

  Pang, G ^a,b,c   Bani Hashemi, A ^d   Au, P ^a   O'Brien, P F ^a,b   Rowlands, J A ^a,b,c   Morton, G ^a,b   Lim, T ^a   Cheung, P ^a,b   Loblaw, A ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CLINICAL TREATMENT; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MEGAVOLTAGE CONE BEAM DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CALIBRATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 39049148338     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/4/012     Document Type: Article

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