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DECT for Brachytherapy and related topics
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Bazalova M et al 2008a Dual-energy CT-based material extraction for tissue segmentation in Monte Carlo
dose calculations Phys. Med. Biol. 53 2439–56
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Bazalova M et al 2008b Tissue segmentation in Monte Carlo treatment planning: a simulation study using
dual-energy CT images Radiother. Oncol. 86 93–8
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Goodsitt M M et al 2011 Accuracies of the synthesized monochromatic CT numbers and effective atomic
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Heismann B and Balda M 2009 Quantitative image-based spectral reconstruction for computed tomography
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Heismann B J et al 2003 Density and atomic number measurements with spectral x-ray attenuation method
J. Appl. Phys. 94 2073–9
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Landry G et al 2010 Sensitivity of low energy brachytherapy Monte Carlo dose calculations to uncertainties
in human tissue composition Med. Phys. 37 5188–98
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low energy brachytherapy photon sources Med. Phys. 38 1526–33
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Mahnken A H et al 2009 Spectral rhoZ-projection method for characterization of body fluids in computed
tomography: ex vivo experiments Acad. Radiol. 16 763–9
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Landry G et al 2011 Simulation study on potential accuracy gains from dual energy CT tissue segmentation
for low-energy brachytherapy Monte Carlo dose calculations Phys. Med. Biol. 56 6257–6278
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Bourque AE et al. 2014 A stoichiometric calibration method for dual energy computed tomography. Phys
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Literature is extensive in radiology and DECT is also of interest in hadron therapy
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