An automatic deformable registration method to evaluate parotid glands shrinkage during radiotherapy treatment in tomotherapy

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 94-97

  Faggiano, Elena ^a,b   Fiorino, Claudio ^c   Broggi, Sara ^c   Cattaneo, Giovanni Mauro ^c   Calandrino, Riccardo ^c   Cerutti, Sergio ^a   Rizzo, Giovanna ^b,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION;

ANATOMICAL ALTERATIONS; AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; PROPAGATION ALGORITHM; RADIATION TREATMENTS; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; SURFACE CONSTRUCTION; TRIANGULAR MESHES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 77950965603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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