• DocumentCode
    1831922
  • Title

    Investigation of CdWO4 detector for megavoltage imaging

  • Author

    Guang Feng ; Pearson, Dave ; Olivera, Gustova ; Mackie, Rock ; Deych, Ruvin

  • Author_Institution
    Tomotherapy Inc., Madison, WI, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    19-25 Oct. 2003
  • Firstpage
    2994
  • Abstract
    This paper reports results on investigations of CdWO4 detector for imaging under radiotherapy environment. The study emphasizes those aspects that are important to imaging applications in radiotherapy environment including effects of radiation damage and its recovery on image quality, detection efficiency at therapy energies and image resolution.
  • Keywords
    X-ray applications; X-ray detection; biological effects of X-rays; image resolution; medical image processing; radiation therapy; solid scintillation detectors; CdWO4 detector; detection efficiency; image quality; image resolution; megavoltage imaging; radiation damage; radiotherapy environment; therapy energies; Anatomy; Detectors; Image reconstruction; Image resolution; Medical treatment; Optical imaging; Patient monitoring; Physics; Telephony; Tomography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE
  • ISSN
    1082-3654
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8257-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352514
  • Filename
    1352514
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1831922