Can megavoltage computed tomography reduce proton range uncertainties in treatment plans for patients with large metal implants?

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2327-2344

  Newhauser, Wayne D ^a,b   Giebeler, Annelise ^a,b   Langen, Katja M ^c   Mirkovic, Dragan ^a,b   Mohan, Radhe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROTON THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

PROTON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMPLANT; MEGAVOLTAGE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; METAL IMPLANTATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON THERAPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 42449129751     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/9/009     Document Type: Article

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