Investigation into image quality and dose for different patient geometries with multiple cone-beam CT systems

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Gardner, Stephen J ^a   Studenski, Matthew T ^b   Giaddui, Tawfik ^c   Cui, Yunfeng ^d   Galvin, James ^c   Yu, Yan ^c   Xiao, Ying ^c  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive radiotherapy; cone beam CT; Gafchromic film dosimetry; IGRT; image quality; imaging dose

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TRAJECTORIES;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; CONE-BEAM CT; GAFCHROMIC FILMS; IGRT; IMAGING DOSE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; RADIOTHERAPY UNIT; THICKNESS; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84896825141     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4865788     Document Type: Article

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