Pulmonary CT image registration and warping for tracking tissue deformation during the respiratory cycle through 3D consistent image registration

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5575-5583

  Li, Baojun ^a   Christensen, Gary E ^b   Hoffman, Eric A ^c   McLennan, Geoffrey ^c   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^b  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b IA United States   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency constraints; Image registration; Pulmonary CT; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DEFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TISSUE;

CONSISTENCY CONSTRAINTS; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITIES; IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHM; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS; TISSUE DEFORMATIONS; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG LOBE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG STRUCTURE; LUNG VENTILATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 56749151420     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3005633     Document Type: Article

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