Slow gantry rotation acquisition technique for on-board four-dimensional digital tomosynthesis

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 921-933

  Maurer, Jacqueline ^a,b   Pan, Tinsu ^c   Yin, Fang Fang ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital tomosynthesis; Four dimensional tomographic imaging; Gated radiotherapy; Image guided radiation therapy; On board imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; ROTATION; TUMORS; VISIBILITY;

DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; GATED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; ON BOARD IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 75749129942     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3285291     Document Type: Article

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