Registration of DRRs and portal images for verification of stereotactic body radiotherapy: A feasibility study in lung cancer treatment

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2157-2170

  Künzler, Thomas ^a   Grezdo, Jozef ^b   Bogner, Joachim ^a   Birkfellner, Wolfgang ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b St Elisabeth Cancer Institute   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IRRADIATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

HYPOFRACTIONATED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE GUIDANCE; PORTAL IMAGES; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DISPLAY SYSTEM; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REGISTRATION; STEREOTAXIS; TARGET ORGAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34147152138     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/8/008     Document Type: Article

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