Multimodality cranial image fusion using external markers applied via a vacuum mouthpiece and a case report

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 254-260

  Sweeney, Reinhart A ^a   Bale, Reto J ^a   Moncayo, Roy ^a   Seydl, Karl ^a   Trieb, Thomas ^a   Eisner, Wilhelm ^a   Burtscher, Johannes ^a   Donnemiller, Eveline ^a   Stockhammer, Günther ^a   Lukas, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Head fixation; Image fusion; Image registration; Multimodality; PET; Radiotherapy; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE MENINGIOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH PROTECTORS; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VACUUM;

EID: 0345269127     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-003-1031-2     Document Type: Article

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