4D medical image computing and visualization of lung tumor mobility in spatio-temporal CT image data

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2007, Pages

  Handels, Heinz ^a   Werner, René ^a   Schmidt, Rainer ^a   Frenzel, Thorsten ^b   Lu, Wei ^c   Low, Daniel ^c   Ehrhardt, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D visualization; 4D image analysis; Motion estimation; Non linear image registration; Radiation therapy; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; PULMONARY DISEASES; RADIOTHERAPY; VISUALIZATION;

3D VISUALIZATION; 4D IMAGE ANALYSIS; NON-LINEAR IMAGE REGISTRATION; RESPIRATORY MOTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG TUMOR; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35448939663     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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