Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 51-61 , Spring 2006

Megavoltage cone-beam CT: System description and clinical applications

  • Olivier Morin, B.S.E.

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, San Francisco, CA
    • University of California San Francisco/University of California Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco, CA
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  • Amy Gillis, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, San Francisco, CA
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  • Josephine Chen, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, San Francisco, CA
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  • Michèle Aubin, M.S.E.E.

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, San Francisco, CA
    • ,
  • M. Kara Bucci, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, San Francisco, CA
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  • Mack Roach III, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, San Francisco, CA
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  • Jean Pouliot, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, San Francisco, CA
    • University of California San Francisco/University of California Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Jean Pouliot, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, 1600 Divisadero Street, Suite H1031, San Francisco, CA 94143

,Accepted 21 December 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2005.12.009

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 51-61 , Spring 2006

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