A phantom study of the accuracy of CT, MR and PET image registrations with a block matching-based algorithm

Cancer/Radiotherapie

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 800-808

  Isambert, A ^a   Bonniaud, G ^a   Lavielle, F ^a   Malandain, G ^b   Lefkopoulos, D ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Block matching; Multimodality image registration; Phantom study; Quality assurance; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57249107989     PISSN: 12783218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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