Nonrigid Image Registration for Head and Neck Cancer Radiotherapy Treatment Planning With PET/CT

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 952-957

  Ireland, Rob H ^a,b   Dyker, Karen E ^a   Barber, David C ^a,c   Wood, Steven M ^a,c   Hanney, Michael B ^c   Tindale, Wendy B ^c   Woodhouse, Neil ^a   Hoggard, Nigel ^a   Conway, John ^b   Robinson, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTON PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Nonrigid image registration; PET; Radiotherapy treatment planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ONCOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

HEAD AND NECK CANCER; NONRIGID IMAGE REGISTRATION; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249316549     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.02.017     Document Type: Article

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