Generation of 4D CT image data and analysis of lung tumour mobility during the breathing cycle

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 124, Issue , 2006, Pages 977-982

  Handels, Heinz ^a   Werner, Rene ^a   Frenzel, Thorsten ^b   Säring, Dennis ^a   Lu, Wei ^c   Low, Daniel ^c   Ehrhardt, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Hermann Holthusen Institute of Radiotherapy   (Germany)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; TUMORS; VELOCITY;

BREATHING CYCLE; FREE BREATHING; LUNG TUMOURS; MULTISLICE CT; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; RESPIRATORY CYCLE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CT; VELOCITY FIELD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35448935444     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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