Advances in 4D medical imaging and 4D radiation therapy

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-81

  Li, Guang ^a   Citrin, Deborah ^a   Camphausen, Kevin ^a   Mueller, Boris ^b   Burman, Chandra ^b   Mychalczak, Borys ^b   Miller, Robert W ^a   Song, Yulin ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4D medical imaging; Adaptive radiation therapy (ART), and 4D radiation therapy (4DRT); Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT); Multiple imaging modalities

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTIFACT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; MOTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION BEAM; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 39049173629     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460800700109     Document Type: Review

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