Automatic registration of PET and CT studies for clinical use in thoracic and abdominal conformal radiotherapy

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-279

  Rizzo, G ^a,b,d   Castiglioni, I ^a,b   Arienti, R ^b,c   Cattaneo, G M ^b   Landoni, C ^a,b,c   Artioli, D ^c   Gilardi, M C ^a,b,c   Messa, C ^a,b,c   Reni, M ^b   Ceresoli, G L ^b   Fazio, F ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Conformal radiotherapy; Image registration; Positron emission tomography; Registration accuracy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE; THORAX; TUMOR;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27644452229     PISSN: 18244785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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