Dose calculation with respiration-averaged CT processed from cine CT without a respiratory surrogate

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5738-5747

  Riegel, Adam C ^a   Ahmad, Moiz ^a   Sun, Xiaojun ^a   Pan, Tinsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Cine CT; Dose calculation; RACT

Indexed keywords

PATIENT MONITORING; PIXELS;

CLINICAL TREATMENT PLANS; DOSE CALCULATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (4D-CT); PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; RACT; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RESPIRATORY SURROGATES; TRANSVERSE ORIENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CINE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RESPIRATION AVERAGED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 56749160631     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3015197     Document Type: Article

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