A study on the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based radiation treatment planning of intracranial lesions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3579-3593

  Stanescu, T ^a   Jans, H S ^a   Pervez, N ^a   Stavrev, P ^a   Fallone, B G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ATOMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; HEALTH; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SCANNING; STANDARDS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; BRAIN STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); CT VALUES; DISTORTION CORRECTION; DOSE CALCULATIONS; DOSE VOLUME HISTOGRAM (DVH); DOSIMETRIC PARAMETERS; ECLIPSE (CO); HEAD STRUCTURES; HETEROGENEOUS IRRADIATION; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); MR IMAGING; MRI SCANNERS; PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS (CO); RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; RADIOBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CONTROL PROBABILITY (TCP); TWO TYPES;

RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CANCER CONTROL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN DISEASES; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47649103932     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/13/013     Document Type: Article

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