Atlas-based delineation of lymph node levels in head and neck computed tomography images

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 281-289

  Commowick, Olivier ^a,b   Grégoire, Vincent ^c   Malandain, Grégoire ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b DOSIsoft SA   (France)

^c CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anatomical atlas construction; Head and neck; Lymph nodes; Non linear registration; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ATLAS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HEAD; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE; NECK; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ATLASES AS TOPIC; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43049154355     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.01.018     Document Type: Article

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