Investigation of MR image distortion for radiotherapy treatment planning of prostate cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1393-1403

  Chen, Z ^a   Ma, C M ^a   Paskalev, K ^a   Li, J ^a   Yang, J ^a   Richardson, T ^a   Palacio, L ^a   Xu, X ^a   Chen, L ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

MR IMAGE DISTORTION; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644681171     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/6/002     Document Type: Article

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