Breath-hold target localization with simultaneous kilovoltage/megavoltage cone-beam CT and fast reconstruction

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-204

  Blessing, M ^a,b   Stsepankou, D ^a   Wertz, H ^a   Arns, A ^b   Lohr, F ^a   Hesser, J ^a   Wenz, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Fast tomographic reconstruction; Image guided radiotherapy; Kilovoltage megavoltage imaging; Treatment verification

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DIAGNOSIS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; CONE-BEAM CT; HIGH DOSE RADIOTHERAPIES; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; PATIENT POSITIONING; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT VERIFICATION; VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950882538     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03879-2_57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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