The use of CT-MR image registration to define target volumes in pelvic radiotherapy in the presence of bilateral hip replacements

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 78, Issue 931, 2005, Pages 634-636

  Charnley, N ^a,b   Morgan, A ^a   Thomas, E ^a   Wilson, S ^a   Bacon, S ^a   Wilson, D ^a   Bottomley, D ^a  

^a Northern and Yorkshire Clinical Trials and Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PROSTATE CANCER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 21644478592     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/28412864     Document Type: Article

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