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DECT for Brachytherapy and related topics

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

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

Goodsitt M M et al 2011 Accuracies of the synthesized monochromatic CT numbers and effective atomic

numbers obtained with a rapid kVp switching dual energy CT scanner Med. Phys. 38 2222–32

Heismann B and Balda M 2009 Quantitative image-based spectral reconstruction for computed tomography

Med. Phys. 36 4471–85

Heismann B J et al 2003 Density and atomic number measurements with spectral x-ray attenuation method

J. Appl. Phys. 94 2073–9

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

Landry G et al 2011 The difference of scoring dose to water or tissues in Monte Carlo dose calculations for

low energy brachytherapy photon sources Med. Phys. 38 1526–33

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

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

Bourque AE et al. 2014 A stoichiometric calibration method for dual energy computed tomography. Phys

Med Biol. 59 2059-88

Literature is extensive in radiology and DECT is also of interest in hadron therapy

(stopping power

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