Evaluation of an automated deformable image matching method for quantifying lung motion in respiration-correlated CT images

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 369-376

  Pevsner, A ^a   Davis, B ^b   Joshi, S ^b   Hertanto, A ^a   Mechalakos, J ^a   Yorke, E ^a   Rosenzweig, K ^a   Nehmeh, S ^a   Erdi, Y E ^a   Humm, J L ^a   Larson, S ^a   Ling, C C ^a   Mageras, G S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable image registration; Lung cancer; Radiation treatment planning; Respiration; Respiration correlated CT

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DEFORMATION; FORECASTING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; LUNG CANCER; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATION-CORRELATED CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREATHING; BREATHING PATTERN; BRONCHUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INHALATION; LUNG MALFORMATION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 31844431959     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2161408     Document Type: Article

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