Evaluation of alignment error due to a speed artifact in stereotactic ultrasound image guidance

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Salter, Bill J ^a   Wang, Brian ^a   Szegedi, Martin W ^a   Rassiah Szegedi, Prema ^a   Shrieve, Dennis C ^a   Cheng, Roger ^b   Fuss, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALIGNMENT; ERRORS; REMOTE CONTROL; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ALIASED; ALIGNMENT ERRORS; BODY FATS; CALCULATED VALUES; CT SCANNERS; DIFFERENT SPEEDS; GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; HIGH DOSES; PIXEL SIZES; POSTE-RIORS; RADIATION TREATMENTS; SET-UPS; SLICE THICKNESSES; SOFT TISSUES; SPEED OF SOUNDS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; THICK LAYERS; TREATMENT PLANS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; US IMAGES;

SPEED;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; ULTRASOUND;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 58149252208     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/23/N03     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Anderson M E, McKeag M S and Trahey G E 2000 The impact of sound speed errors on medical ultrasound imaging J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107 3540-8
2. Chandra A, Dong L, Huang E, Kuban D A, O'Neill L, Rosen I and Pollack A 2003 Experience of ultrasound-based daily prostate localization Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 56 436-47
3. Feigenberg S J, Paskalev K, McNeeley S, Horwitz E M, Konski A, Wang L, Ma C and Pollack A 2007 Comparing computed tomography localization with daily ultrasound during image-guided radiation therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer: a prospective evaluation J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 8 2268
4. Fuss M, Cavanaugh S X, Fuss C, Cheek D A and Salter B J 2003 Daily stereotactic ultrasound prostate targeting: inter-user variability Technol. Cancer Res. Treat. 2 161-70
5. Fuss M, Salter B J, Cavanaugh S X, Fuss C, Sadeghi A, Fuller C D, Ameduri A, Hevezi J M, Herman T S and Thomas C R Jr 2004 Daily ultrasound-based image-guided targeting for radiotherapy of upper abdominal malignancies Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 59 1245-56
6. Lattanzi J, McNeeley S, Pinover W, Horwitz E, Das I, Schultheiss T E and Hanks G E 1999 A comparison of daily CT localization to a daily ultrasound-based system in prostate cancer Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 43 719-25
7. Morr J, DiPetrillo T, Tsai J S, Engler M and Wazer D E 2002 Implementation and utility of a daily ultrasound-based localization system with intensity-modulated radiotherapy for prostate cancer Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 53 1124-9
8. Napolitano D, Chou C H, McLaughlin G, Ji T L, Mo L, DeBusschere D and Steins R 2006 Sound speed correction in ultrasound imaging Ultrasonics 44 (Suppl 1) e43-6
9. Patel R R, Orton N, Tome W A, Chappell R and Ritter M A 2003 Rectal dose sparing with a balloon catheter and ultrasound localization in conformal radiation therapy for prostate cancer Radiother. Oncol. 67 285-94
10. Poli M E, Parker W, Patrocinio H, Souhami L, Shenouda G, Campos L L and Podgorsak E B 2007 An assessment of PTV margin definitions for patients undergoing conformal 3D external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer based on an analysis of 10 327 pretreatment daily ultrasound localizations Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 67 1430-7
11. Serago C F, Buskirk S J, Igel T C, Gale A A, Serago N E and Earle J D 2006 Comparison of daily megavoltage electronic portal imaging or kilovoltage imaging with marker seeds to ultrasound imaging or skin marks for prostate localization and treatment positioning in patients with prostate cancer Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 65 1585-92
12. Serago C F, Chungbin S J, Buskirk S J, Ezzell G A, Collie A C and Vora S A 2002 Initial experience with ultrasound localization for positioning prostate cancer patients for external beam radiotherapy Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 53 1130-8