Characteristics of megavoltage cone-beam digital tomosynthesis

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1310-1316

  Descovich, M ^a   Morin, O ^a   Aubry, J F ^a   Aubin, M ^a   Chen, J ^a   Bani Hashemi, A ^b   Pouliot, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Image quality; In room imaging; Megavoltage cone beam digital tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ACQUISITION TIME; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; IMAGE CHARACTERISTICS; MEGA-VOLTAGE CONE BEAM; PROJECTION IMAGE; SHAPE DISTORTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CONE BEAM DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 41449084790     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2868763     Document Type: Article

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