X-ray acoustic computed tomography with pulsed x-ray beam from a medical linear accelerator

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Xiang, Liangzhong ^a   Han, Bin ^a   Carpenter, Colin ^a   Pratx, Guillem ^a   Kuang, Yu ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

linear accelerator; photoacoustic imaging; radiation therapy; x ray acoustic computed tomography (XACT)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ANIMALS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER EXCITATION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT DETECTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL DETECTION; STEPPING MOTORS; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; IRRADIATION ENERGY; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; RAY ACOUSTICS; TISSUE PENETRATIONS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

X RAYS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NONHUMAN; OSCILLOSCOPE; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PIGEON THORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL DETECTION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; X RAY DOSE DISTRIBUTION; X-RAY ACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ACOUSTICS; EQUIPMENT; LETTER; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; RADIATION DOSE;

COLUMBA;

ACOUSTICS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84872015826     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4771935     Document Type: Article

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