Feature-based rectal contour propagation from planning CT to cone beam CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4450-4459

  Xie, Yaoqin ^a   Chao, Ming ^a   Lee, Percy ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable model; Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT); Image registration; Scale invariance feature transformation (SIFT); Segmentation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPPING; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; DEFORMABLE MODELING; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; FEATURE BASED REGISTRATION; FEATURE TRANSFORMATIONS; HOMOLOGOUS CONTROL POINTS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; REGISTRATION PROCESS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE BASED RECTAL CONTOUR PROPAGATION ALGORITHM; MOTION; PLANNING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM;

EID: 52949153932     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2975230     Document Type: Article

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