Radiation exposure to patients from image guidance procedures and techniques to reduce the imaging dose

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 91-98

  Ding, George X ^a   Munro, Peter ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Laboratory GmbH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Imaging dose reduction techniques; kV CBCT dose; kV CBCT in TrueBeam; kV radiograph dose; MV imaging dose

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; HEAD; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THORAX; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY;

IMAGING DOSE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; KV-CBCT DOSE; KV-CBCT IN TRUEBEAM; KV-RADIOGRAPH DOSE; MV IMAGING DOSE;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; THORAX;

EID: 84883140874     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.05.034     Document Type: Article

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