Clinical application of Varian OBI CBCT system and dose reduction techniques in breast cancer patients setup

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2985-2998

  Ueltzhöffer, Stefan ^a,b   Zygmanski, Piotr ^a   Hesser, Jürgen ^b   Högele, Wolfgang ^a,b   Wong, Julia ^a   Bellon, Jennifer R ^a   Lyatskaya, Yulia ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast; CBCT; Dose; Image quality; OBI

Indexed keywords

LOCATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL;

BREAST; CBCT; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CONTRALATERAL BREAST; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DOSE; EVALUATION OF IMAGE QUALITIES; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 77953503345     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3432617     Document Type: Article

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