Theoretical variance analysis of single- and dual-energy computed tomography methods for calculating proton stopping power ratios of biological tissues

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1343-1362

  Yang, M ^a,b   Virshup, G ^c   Clayton, J ^c   Zhu, X R ^a,b   Mohan, R ^a,b   Dong, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM HARDENING EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CALIBRATION METHOD; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CLINICAL SETTINGS; CT IMAGING; DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY CT; EFFECTIVE ATOMIC NUMBER; HUMAN TISSUES; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; MEAN EXCITATION ENERGY; PATIENT MOVEMENT; PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RMS ERRORS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SCHNEIDER; SIMULATION STUDIES; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; STOPPING POWER; TISSUE COMPOSITION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ALGEBRA; ATOMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENT SCALES; IONIZATION; PROTONS; STANDARDS;

TISSUE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; UNCERTAINTY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CALIBRATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 76849084509     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/5/006     Document Type: Article

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