The potential of dual-energy computed tomography for quantitative decomposition of soft tissues to water, protein and lipid in brachytherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 771-785

  Malusek, A ^a   Karlsson, M ^a   Magnusson, M ^a   Carlsson, G Alm ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER CODES; DECOMPOSITION METHODS; DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; ELEMENTAL MASS; GENERAL PURPOSE; HIGH-Z MATERIAL; MASS ENERGY; MASS ENERGY ABSORPTION; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; PHOTON ENERGY; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE COMPOSITION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

PROTEINS;

LIPID; PROTEIN; WATER;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; PROTEINS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873680216     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/4/771     Document Type: Article

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