The impact of tumor motion upon CT image integrity and target delineation

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3378-3392

  Gagné, Isabelle M ^a   Robinson, Don M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATLAB; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

CONFORMAL RADIATIONS; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; TARGET VOLUME DELINEATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 11244329184     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1799291     Document Type: Article

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