Use of a megavoltage electronic portal imaging device to identify prosthetic materials

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 93-100

  Moutrie, Vaughan ^a,c   Kairn, Tanya ^b   Rosenfeld, Anatoly ^c   Charles, Paul H ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WESLEY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electron density; EPID; Megavoltage imaging; Prosthesis; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONS; HIP PROSTHESES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROSTHETICS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DENSITY OBJECTS; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EPID; HIP REPLACEMENTS; MEGAVOLTAGE IMAGING; METALLIC PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT BEAMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALLOY; CHROMIUM; COBALT; STEEL; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; HIP PROSTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; METAL IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RELATIVE DENSITY; RELATIVE ELECTRON DENSITY; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRON; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

ARTIFACTS; ELECTRONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84930656560     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: 18795447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13246-015-0327-8     Document Type: Article

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