Developmentand implementation ofa low-cost phantom forquality control in cone beam computed tomography

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 552-560

  Batista, W O ^a,b   Navarro, M V T ^a   Maia, A F ^b  

^a Science and Technology of Bahia   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FACE; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PLASTICS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84890048354     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nct177     Document Type: Article

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