Organ contouring for prostate cancer: Interobserver and internal organ motion variability

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 639-647

  Gual Arnau, X ^a,c   Ibanez Gual M V ^a,d   Lliso, F ^b,e   Roldan S ^b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^c International Society for Stereology   (Spain)

^d European Mathematical Society ^*  (Spain)

^e American Association of Physicists in Medicine   (United States)

^f Valencian Institute of Oncology (IVO)   (Spain)

^g American Association of Physicists in Medicine ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Geometrical uncertainties; Interobserver variability; Organ motion; Radiotherapy; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; ORGAN MOTION; STEREOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOLOGY;

HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 28444469836     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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