Region-of-interest image reconstruction with intensity weighting in circular cone-beam CT for image-guided radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1184-1192

  Cho, Seungryong ^a   Pearson, Erik ^a   Pelizzari, Charles A ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

chord based reconstruction; conebeam CT; IGRT; imaging dose reduction; ROI imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOTHERAPY; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAYS;

BACKPROJECTION FILTRATIONS; CONE-BEAM CT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; IGRT; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGING DOSE REDUCTIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REGION-OF-INTEREST IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FILTER; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NOISE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PELVIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 63849324256     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3085825     Document Type: Article

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