Improving Soft-Tissue Contrast in Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography Images of Liver Cancer Patients Using a Deformable Image Registration Method

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 201-209

  Wang, He ^a   Krishnan, Sunil ^a   Wang, Xiaochun ^a   Beddar, A Sam ^a   Briere, Tina M ^a   Crane, Christopher H ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Deformable image registration; Image processing; Organ motion; Target delineation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; LIVER; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY;

4D CT; 4D CT SCAN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; CONTRAST-ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO; COREGISTERED; CT IMAGING; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; HIGH-QUALITY; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY ENHANCEMENT; INTENSITY-BASED; LIVER CANCERS; NOISE RATIOS; ORGAN MOTION; ORIGINAL IMAGES; PHASE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; REGION -OF-INTEREST; SOFT TISSUES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION.; TARGET DELINEATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER CANCER; MOTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOFT TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTIFACTS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; EXHALATION; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MUSCLES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49549087531     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.04.054     Document Type: Article

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