Tracking lung tissue motion and expansion/compression with inverse consistent image registration and spirometry

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2155-2163

  Christensen, Gary E ^a,b   Song, Joo Hyun ^b   Lu, Wei ^c   Naqa, Issam El ^c   Low, Daniel A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b IA United States   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Image registration; Inverse consistency; Lung motion; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

AIR; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DEFORMATION; EXPANSION; FLOW RATE; IMAGE REGISTRATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MOTION TRACKING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; CONSECUTIVE IMAGES; EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION; INVERSE CONSISTENCY; INVERSE CONSISTENT IMAGE REGISTRATION; LINEAR ELASTIC MODEL; LUNG MOTION; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FLOW RATE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPIROMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 34447302335     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2731029     Document Type: Article

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