Clinical evaluation of a commercial orthopedic metal artifact reduction tool for CT simulations in radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7507-7517

  Li, Hua ^a   Noel, Camille ^a   Chen, Haijian ^a   Harold Li, H ^a   Low, Daniel ^b   Moore, Kevin ^c   Klahr, Paul ^d   Michalski, Jeff ^a   Gay, Hiram A ^a   Thorstad, Wade ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT simulations; dose distribution; metal artifact reduction; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; METAL IMPLANTS; METALS; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; VISUALIZATION;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CRITICAL STRUCTURES; CT SIMULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870927687     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4762814     Document Type: Article

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