Daily target localization for prostate patients based on 3D image correlation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 931-939

  Paskalev, K ^a   Ma, C M ^a   Jacob, R ^a   Price, R ^a   McNeeley, S ^a   Wang, L ^a   Movsas, B ^a   Pollack, A ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMARKERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION METHODS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MEDICAL IMAGING;

PLANNING ISOCENTRES; PROSTATE TREATMENT;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SIMULATION; SKIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1642528349     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/6/005     Document Type: Article

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