Four-dimensional volume-of-interest reconstruction for cone-beam computed tomography-guided radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5646-5656

  Ahmad, Moiz ^a   Balter, Peter ^a   Pan, Tinsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CBCT; image reconstruction; image guided radiation therapy; volume of interest

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; PHANTOMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

4D-CBCT; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGE; VOLUME OF INTEREST;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 80053617536     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3634058     Document Type: Article

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