Implementation of Talairach atlas based automated brain segmentation for radiation therapy dosimetry

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-21

  Popple, Richard A ^a   Griffith, H Randall ^b   Sawrie, Stephen M ^a   Fiveash, John B ^a   Brezovich, Ivan A ^a  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

And Radiation therapy treatment planning; Atlas based segmentation; Brain; DICOM; Talairach atlas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASTROCYTOMA; ATLAS; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; FRONTAL LOBE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; STANDARDIZATION; TALAIRACH ATLAS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 33244495381     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460600500103     Document Type: Article

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