Reducing radiation exposure to patients from kV-CBCT imaging

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 585-592

  Ding, George X ^a,b   Munro, Peter ^c   Pawlowski, Jason ^b   Malcolm, Arnold ^a   Coffey, Charles W ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

IGRT; Imaging dose reduction techniques; Imaging dose to bone; Imaging dose to organs; kV Cone beam CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; EYE; HEAD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RECTUM; SPINAL CORD; THORAX; X RAY;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EYE; HEAD; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PELVIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; THORAX;

EID: 78651476884     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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