Anatomic feature-based registration for patient set-up in head and neck cancer radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 4667-4679

  Sharp, Gregory C ^a   Kollipara, Sashidhar ^a   Madden, Thomas ^a   Jiang, Steve B ^a   Rosenthal, Stanley J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

ANATOMIC FEATURE-BASED REGISTRATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOGRAPHS; SEMI-AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKELETON;

EID: 25444492636     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/19/016     Document Type: Article

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