Automatic registration of the prostate for computed-tomography-guided radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2750-2757

  Court, Laurence E ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided radiotherapy; Prostate localization; Radiotherapy; Target localization

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; COST FUNCTIONS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICS; UROLOGY;

AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTEROBSERVER VARIATIONS; MEAN ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCES; PROSTATE LOCALIZATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TARGET LOCALIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFT TISSUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0142025618     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1608497     Document Type: Article

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