Dosimetric characterization and application of an imaging beam line with a carbon electron target for megavoltage cone beam computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2181-2192

  Flynn, Ryan T ^a   Hartmann, Julia ^b   Bani Hashemi, Ali ^b   Nixon, Earl ^a   Alfredo, R ^a   Siochi, C ^a   Pennington, Edward C ^a   Bayouth, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging beam line; Imaging dose; MVCBCT

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; UROLOGY; X RAY DETECTORS;

BEAM LINES; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMAGING DOSE; MEGA-VOLTAGE CONE BEAM; MVCBCT; STANDARD CALIBRATION; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

ELECTRON BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CARBON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; ROTATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 66449108267     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3125663     Document Type: Article

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