Multimodality Image Fusion and Planning and Dose Delivery for Radiation Therapy

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-155

  Saw, Cheng B ^a   Chen, Hungcheng ^a   Beatty, Ron E ^a   Wagner Jr , Henry ^a  

^a PENN STATE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

IGRT; Image fusion; Image registration; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43049148359     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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