Development of a computed tomographic scanner for radiation therapy treatment planning.
The authors describe a low-cost CT scanner integrated with a radiotherapy simulator and designed for treatment planning. The standard rotational gantry and x-ray tube of the simulator are used with a multiwire xenon lonization chamber and simple current-proportional readout system to measure patient attenuation, avoiding problems associated with diagnostic CT scanners in  treatment planning. Although design constraints limit performance, software compensation techniques have reduced artifacts and given satisfactory images.
D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006257:Head; D006801:Humans; D008961:Models, Structural; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014978:Xenon
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