Can Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or PET/Computed Tomography (CT) Acquired in a Nontreatment Position Be Accurately Registered to a Head-and-Neck Radiotherapy Planning CT?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 578-584

  Hwang, Andrew B ^a   Bacharach, Stephen L ^b   Yom, Sue S ^a   Weinberg, Vivian K ^c   Quivey, Jeanne M ^a   Franc, Benjamin L ^b   Xia, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Image registration; PET CT; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ERRORS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

CENTER OF MASSES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATIONS; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATIONS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM ERRORS; NORMAL STRUCTURES; PET/CT; PLANNING PROCESSES; POSITRON EMISSIONS; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENTS; REGISTRATION ACCURACIES; REGISTRATION ERRORS; REGISTRATION METHODS; RIGID BODIES; SPINAL CORDS; TUMOR VOLUMES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MANDIBLE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 58149334803     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.09.041     Document Type: Article

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