Radiation therapy planning and simulation with magnetic resonance images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6918, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Boettger, Thomas ^a   Nyholm, Tufve ^b   Karlsson, Magnus ^b   Nunna, Chandrasekhar ^a   Celi, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Radiation therapy planning; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; RESONANCE; RISKS; SKIN; TARGETS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION;

BONY ANATOMY; CLINICAL CONDITIONS; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEMS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATA; CT DATA; DATA SETS; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS (DRRS); DOSE CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON DENSITIES; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTIONS; IMAGE-GUIDED PROCEDURES; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANS AT RISK (OAR); PATIENT LOCALIZATION; SOFT TISSUE DEFORMATIONS; TARGET STRUCTURES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 45249094301     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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