Estimation of organ doses from kilovoltage cone-beam CT imaging used during radiotherapy patient position verification

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4620-4626

  Hyer, Daniel E ^a,b   Hintenlang, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

cone beam computed tomography; image guided radiation therapy; patient dose; point dosimeter

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONEBEAM CT; DOSE MEASUREMENT; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; PATIENT DOSE; PATIENT POSITION VERIFICATION; PRACTICAL METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77956314106     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3476459     Document Type: Article

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