Evaluation of tomotherapy MVCT image enhancement program for tumor volume delineation

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 112-121

  Martin, Spencer ^a   Rodrigues, George ^a   Chen, Quan ^b   Pavamani, Simon ^a   Read, Nancy ^a   Ahmad, Belal ^a   Hammond, J Alex ^a   Venkatesan, Varagur ^a   Renaud, James ^a   Yartsev, Slav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

MVCT enhancement; Target delineation; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052137356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v12i3.3505     Document Type: Article

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