Physical performance and image optimization of megavoltage cone-beam CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1421-1432

  Morin, Olivier ^a,b,d   Aubry, Jean Fraņois ^a   Aubin, Mich̀le ^a   Chen, Josephine ^a   Descovich, Martina ^a   Hashemi, Ali Bani ^c   Pouliot, Jean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UC Berkeley UC San Francisco Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

image quality; Megavoltage cone beam CT; physical performance; system stability

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SILICON DETECTORS; SYSTEM STABILITY; X RAY DETECTORS;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; EDGE-BLURRING TECHNIQUE; GEOMETRICAL CALIBRATIONS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; MEGAVOLTAGE CONE-BEAM CT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

WATER;

ACCURACY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FILTRATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOFT TISSUE;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; X-RAYS;

EID: 63849218266     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3096706     Document Type: Article

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