Validation of an automatic contour propagation method for lung cancer 4D adaptive radiation therapy

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1071-1074

  Peroni, M ^a   Spadea, M F ^a,b   Riboldi, M ^a   Baroni, G ^a   Chen, G T Y ^c,d   Sharp, G C ^c,d  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

4D treatment planning; Adaptive radiation therapy; Contour propagation; Deformable registration; Re planning

Indexed keywords

4D TREATMENT PLANNING; ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPY; CONTOUR PROPAGATION; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; RE-PLANNING;

DEFORMATION; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; ONCOLOGY; SPLINES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 70449344271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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