Estimating volumetric motion in human thorax with parametric matching constraints

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 766-772

  Weruaga, Luis ^a   Morales, Juan ^a   Núñez, Luis ^b   Verdú, Rafael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Parametric model fitting; Radiotherapy; Regularization; Volumetric motion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; TUMORS;

PARAMETRIC MODEL FITTING; VOLUMETRIC MOTION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0043175065     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.814782     Document Type: Article

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