Development of a QA phantom and automated analysis tool for geometric quality assurance of on-board MV and kV x-ray imaging systems

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1497-1506

  Mao, Weihua ^a   Lee, Louis ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SOURCES; GEOMETRY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY TUBES;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARES; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; POSITION AND ORIENTATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROJECTION IMAGES; X RAY IMAGING SYSTEM;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KILOVOLTAGE RADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY TUBE;

EID: 41449117460     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2885719     Document Type: Article

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