Image fusion of CT and MRI data enables improved target volume definition in 3D-brachytherapy treatment planning

Brachytherapy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 164-171

  Krempien, Robert C ^a   Daeuber, Sascha ^b   Hensley, Frank W ^a   Wannenmacher, Michael ^a   Harms, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Image fusion; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMPLANTATION; LIPOSARCOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VULVA CANCER;

EID: 0141449136     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1538-4721(03)00133-8     Document Type: Article

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