Physical phantom studies of helical cone-beam CT with exact reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4695-4704

  Tan, Jun ^a   Li, H Harold ^a   Klein, Eric ^a   Li, Hua ^a   Parikh, Parag ^a   Yang, Deshan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CBCT; cone beam computed tomography; CT reconstruction; IGRT

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CBCT; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT RECONSTRUCTION; IGRT; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; MECHANICAL INSTABILITIES; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864645857     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736535     Document Type: Article

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