Matching PET and CT scans of the head and neck area: Development of method and validation

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2230-2238

  Klabbers, Bianca M ^a   De Munck, Jan C ^a   Slotman, Ben J ^a   Langendijk, Hans A ^a   De Bree, Remco ^a   Hoekstra, Otto S ^a   Boellaard, Ronald ^a   Lammertsma, Adriaan A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CT; Head and neck scans; Image correlation; PET; Registration validation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSIONS;

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION; HEAD AND NECK; IMAGE CORRELATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES; REGISTRATION VALIDATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0036798695     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1508111     Document Type: Article

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