Feasibility study on effect and stability of adaptive radiotherapy on kilovoltage cone beam CT

Radiology and Oncology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 220-226

  Yadav, Poonam ^a,b   Ramasubramanian, Velayudham ^b   Paliwal, Bhudatt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

adaptive planning; cone beam computerized tomography; CT to density table; electron density phantom; kV CBCT

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CALIBRATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; KILOVOLTAGE; LUNG; PHANTOM; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; RECTUM; SOFT TISSUE; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 80052196803     PISSN: 13182099     EISSN: 15813207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10019-011-0024-5     Document Type: Article

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