A deformable image registration method to handle distended rectums in prostate cancer radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3304-3312

  Gao, Song ^a   Zhang, Lifei ^a   Wang, He ^a   De Crevoisier, Renaud ^a   Kuban, Deborah D ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autosegmentation; Deformable image registration; Image intensity modification; Image guided radiotherapy; Prostate cancers

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISEASES; IMAGE REGISTRATION; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

AUTO SEGMENTATION; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE INTENSITIES; PROSTATE CANCERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

EID: 33748304451     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2222077     Document Type: Article

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