Imaging doses and secondary cancer risk from kilovoltage cone-beam ct in radiation therapy

Health Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 499-503

  Kim, Dong Wook ^a   Chung, Weon Kuu ^a   Yoon, Myonggeun ^b  

^a Kyung Hee University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

computed tomography; radiation protection; radiotherapy; risk estimates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NECK; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SECOND CANCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NECK; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PELVIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84876138779     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: 15385159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e318285c685     Document Type: Article

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