Evaluating commercial image registration packages for radiotherapy treatment planning

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1948-1953

  Dalah, Entesar Z ^a   Nisbet, A ^a,b   Reise, S ^b   Bradley, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiducial marker; Fusion; Image registration; Window level

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RESONANCE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMMERCIAL IMAGE; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CT IMAGING; FIDUCIAL MARKER; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; FUSION; MULTI-MODALITY; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGES; NATIONAL ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION; PET IMAGING; PHANTOM STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; REGISTRATION ALGORITHMS; REGISTRATION METHODS; TARGET SIZE; TARGET VOLUME DELINEATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; WINDOW LEVEL;

IMAGE FUSION;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 53549094126     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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