Cone beam CT based dose calculation in the thorax region

Background and purpose: The limited image quality in Cone Beam CT (CBCT) stemming primarily from scattered radiation hinders accurate CBCT based dose calculation in radiotherapy. We investigated the use of a stoichiometric calibration for dose calculation on CBCT images of lung cancer patients. Mate...

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Main Authors: Laura Patricia Kaplan, Ulrik Vindelev Elstrøm, Ditte Sloth Møller, Lone Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-07-01
Series:Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405631618300459