Projection-data based temporal maximum attenuation computed tomography: Determination of internal target volume for lung cancer against intra-fraction motion

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1027-1038

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a,d   Kanematsu, Nobuyuki ^a   Asakura, Hiroshi ^b   Endo, Masahiro ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Inage ku   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

CLINICAL EVALUATIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CT SCAN TECHNIQUE (4DCT); INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME (ITV); ORGAN MOTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247146491     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/4/011     Document Type: Article

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