Investigation of the usability of conebeam CT data sets for dose calculation

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Richter, Anne ^a   Hu, Qiaoqiao ^a   Steglich, Doreen ^a   Baier, Kurt ^a   Wilbert, Jürgen ^a   Guckenberger, Matthias ^a   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; PELVIC DISEASE; PHANTOM; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REFERENCE VALUE; THORAX DISEASE; TREATMENT PLANNING; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CALIBRATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PELVIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORAX;

EID: 61849095754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-3-42     Document Type: Article

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