Commissioning of a novel microCT/RT system for small animal conformal radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3727-3740

  Rodriguez, Manuel ^a,b   Zhou, Hu ^a   Keall, Paul ^a   Graves, Edward ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF HONDURAS   (Honduras)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; DELIVERY METHODS; DOSE RATE; FIELD SIZE; GAFCHROMIC EBT; ION CHAMBER; ISOCENTERS; MICRO CT; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROCT SCANNERS; MULTIPLE BEAM; PHOTON BEAMS; RADIATION DOSE; SMALL ANIMAL; TARGET ORGANS; THERAPEUTIC DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; WATER SURFACE;

DOSIMETRY; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TARGET ORGAN; TREATMENT PLANNING; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MINIATURIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70149113985     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/12/008     Document Type: Article

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