Clinical evaluations of an amplitude-based binning algorithm for 4DCT reconstruction in radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 922-932

  Li, Hua ^a   Noel, Camille ^a   Garcia Ramirez, Jose ^a   Low, Daniel ^b   Bradley, Jeffrey ^a   Robinson, Clifford ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Parikh, Parag ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT MONITORING; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

4D-CT RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER GENERATED; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; PATIENT TRAJECTORIES; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84863042764     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3679015     Document Type: Article

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