A hyperboliod representation of the bone-marrow interface within 3D NMR images of trabecular bone: Applications to skeletal dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1721-1740

  Rajon, D A ^a   Shah, A P ^a   Watchman, C J ^a   Brindle, J M ^a   Bolch, W E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RADIOISOTOPES;

ENERGY DEPOSITION;

BONE;

PHOSPHORUS; SAMARIUM 153; TIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BONE SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; BONE AND BONES; BONE MARROW; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0037821640     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/12/304     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Beddoe A H 1978 A quantitative study of the structure of trabecular bone in man, rhesus monkey, beagle and miniature pig Calcif. Tissue Res. 25 273-81
2. Bolch W E, Patton P W, Rajon D A, Shah A P, Jokisch D W and Inglis B 2002a Considerations of marrow cellularity in 3D dosimetric models of the trabecular skeleton J. Nucl. Med. 43 97-108
3. Bolch W E, Patton P W, Shah A P, and Rajon D A 2002b Considerations of anthropomorphic, tissue volume, and tissue mass scaling for improved patient specificity of skeletal S values Med. Phys. 29 1054-70
4. Chao T C, Bozkurt A and Xu X G 2001a Conversion coefficients based on the VIP-man anatomical model and EGS4 Health Phys. 81 163-83
5. Chao T C, Bozkurt A and Xu X G 2001b Organ dose conversion coefficients for 0. 1-10 MeV electrons calculated for the VIP-Man tomographic model Health Phys. 81 203-14
6. Düurst M 1988 Letters: additional reference to 'marching cube' Comput. Graph. 22 72-3
7. Eckerman K F, Westfall R J, Ryman J C and Cristy M 1993 Nuclear Decay Data Files of the Dosimetry Research Group (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory) ORNL/TM-12350
8. Howell R W 1994 The MIRD schema: from organ to cellular dimensions J. Nucl. Med. 35 531-3
9. ICRU 1992 Photon, electron, proton and neutron interaction data for body tissues International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements Report 46
10. Jokisch D 1999 Beta particle dosimetry of the trabecular region of a thoracic vertebra utilizing NMR microscopy Dissertation University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 235 p
11. Jokisch D W, Patton P W, Inglis B A, Bouchet L G, Rajon D A, Rifkin J and Bolch W E 1998 NMR microscopy of trabecular bone and its role in skeletal dosimetry Health Phys. 75 584-96
12. Kawrakow I 2000 Accurate condensed history Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport: I. EGSnrc, the new EGS4 version Med. Phys. 27 485-98
13. Loevinger R, Budinger T F and Watson E E 1991 MIRD Primer for Absorbed Dose Calculations (New York: The Society of Nuclear Medicine)
14. Lorensen W E and Cline H E 1987 Marching cubes: a high-resolution 3D surface construction algorithm Comput. Graph. 21 163-9
15. Nielson G and Hamann B 1991 The asymptotic decider: resolving the ambiguity in marching cubes IEEE Proc. Visualization (San Diego, CA, 1991) pp 83-91
16. Patton P W, Jokisch D W, Rajon D A, Shah A P, Myers S L and Bolch W E 2002 Skeletal dosimetry via NMR microscopy: investigations of sample reproducibility and signal source Health Phys. 82 316-26
17. Poston J, Bolch W and Bouchet L 2002 Mathematical models of human anatomy Monte Carlo Calculations in Nuclear Medicine: Therapeutic Applications ed H Zaidi and G Sgouros (Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing) pp 108-32
18. Rajon D and Bolch W 2003 Marching cube algorithm: review and trilinear interpolation adaptation for image-based dosimetric models Comput. Med. Imag. Graph. at press
19. Rajon D A, Jokisch D W, Patton P W, Shah A P and Bolch W E 2000 Voxel size effects in three-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy performed for trabecular bone dosimetry Med. Phys. 27 2624-35
20. Rajon D A, Patton P W, Shah A P, Watchman C J and Bolch W E 2002 Surface area overestimation within three-dimensional digital images and its consequence for skeletal dosimetry Med. Phys. 29 682-93
21. Sgouros G 1993 Bone marrow dosimetry for radioimmunotherapy: theoretical considerations J. Nucl. Med. 34 689-94
22. Sgouros G, Stabin M, Erdi Y, Akabani G, Kwok C, Brill A B and Wessels B 2000 Red marrow dosimetry for radiolabeled antibodies that bind to marrow, bone, or blood components Med. Phys. 27 2150-64
23. Shen S, DeNardo G L, Sgouros G, O'Donnell R T and DeNardo S J 1999 Practical determination of patient-specific marrow dose using radioactivity concentration in blood and body J. Nucl. Med. 40 2102-6
24. Shen S, Meredith R F, Duan J, Macey D J, Khazaeli M B, Robert F and LoBuglio A F 2002 Improved prediction of myelotoxicity using a patient-specific imaging dose estimate for non-marrow-targeting (90)y-antibody therapy J. Nucl. Med. 43 1245-53
25. Treece G, Prager R and Gee A 1999 Regularised marching tetrahedra: improved iso-surface extraction Comput. Graph. 23 583-98
26. Van Gelder A and Wilhelms J 1994 Topological considerations in isosurface generation ACM Trans. Graph. 13 337-75
27. Whitwell J R 1973 Theoretical investigations of energy loss by ionizing particles in bone Thesis University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 268 p
28. Wyvill G, McPheeters C and Wyvill B 1986 Data structure for soft objects Visual Comput. 2 227-34
29. Xu X G, Chao T C and Bozkurt A 2000 VIP-Man: an image-based whole-body adult male model constructed from color photographs of the visible human project for multi-particle Monte Carlo calculations Health Phys. 78 476-86
30. Zankl M and Wittmann A 2001 The adult male voxel model 'Golem' segmented from whole-body CT patient data Radiat. Environmental Biophys. 40 153-62
31. Zhou Y, Chen W and Tang Z 1995 An elaborated ambiguity detection method for constructing isosurfaces within tetrahedral meshes Comput. Graph. 19 355-64
32. Zhou C, Shu R and Kankanhalli M 1994 Handing small features in isosurface generation using marching cubes Comput. Graph. 18 845-8.