Comparison of patient megavoltage cone beam CT images acquired with an unflattened beam from a carbon target and a flattened treatment beam

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1737-1741

  Faddegon, Bruce A ^a   Aubin, Michele ^a   Bani Hashemi, Ali ^b   Gangadharan, Bijumon ^b   Gottschalk, Alexander R ^a   Morin, Olivier ^a   Sawkey, Daren ^a   Wu, Vincent ^c   Yom, Sue S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Image guided radiotherapy; Megavoltage imaging

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ATOMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARBON; DIAGNOSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; HIP PROSTHESES; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

CONE-BEAM CT; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MEGA-VOLTAGE CONE BEAM; MEGAVOLTAGE CONE-BEAM CT; MEGAVOLTAGE IMAGING; METALLIC HIP PROSTHESIS; MINIMAL EFFECTS; STANDARD CALIBRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950592837     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3359822     Document Type: Article

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