Real-time Cherenkov emission portal imaging during CyberKnife® radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 22, 2015, Pages N419-N425

  Roussakis, Yiannis ^a   Zhang, Rongxiao ^b   Heyes, Geoff ^c   Webster, Gareth ^c   Mason, Suzannah ^a   Green, Stuart ^c   Pogue, Brian ^d   Dehghani, Hamid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cherenkov imaging; CyberKnife; electronic portal imaging device; portal imaging; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; WATER TANKS;

CHERENKOV; CHERENKOV EMISSIONS; CYBERKNIFE; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; FRAMES PER SECONDS; PORTAL IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; TISSUE-EQUIVALENT MATERIALS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING PHANTOM; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOSURGERY;

BONE AND BONES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84947060686     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/22/N419     Document Type: Article

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