Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 80-85 , Summer 2007

Performance Characteristics and Quality Assurance Aspects of Kilovoltage Cone-Beam CT on Medical Linear Accelerator

  • Cheng B. Saw, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Pittsburgh, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Cheng B. Saw, Ph.D., Medical Physics Division, Room 541, UPMC Cancer Pavilion, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232.
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  • Yong Yang, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Fang Li, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Ning J. Yue, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
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  • ChuXiong Ding, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Krishna Komanduri, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Saiful Huq, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Dwight E. Heron, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Pittsburgh, PA

,Accepted 11 January 2007.

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PII: S0958-3947(07)00005-2

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2007.01.003

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 80-85 , Summer 2007

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