Clinical evaluation of soft tissue organ boundary visualization on cone-beam computed tomographic imaging

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 929-936

  Weiss, Elisabeth ^a,b   Wu, Jian ^a   Sleeman, William ^a   Bryant, Joshua ^a   Mitra, Priya ^a   Myers, Michael ^a   Ivanova, Tatjana ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Nitai ^c   Ramakrishnan, Viswanathan ^c   Murphy, Martin ^a   Williamson, Jeffrey ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Image quality; Image guided adaptive radiotherapy; Prostate cancer; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; CONE BEAM; CONE-BEAM CT; DETECTABILITY; FAN BEAMS; IDENTIFICATION RULES; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE SETS; IMAGE-GUIDED; IMAGING ARTIFACTS; INTERMODALITY; LOW CONTRAST; PROSTATE CANCERS; SEGMENTATION; SOFT TISSUE; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE MESH; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

DISEASES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FAN BEAM COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM; SOFT TISSUE ORGAN BOUNDARY VISUALIZATION; SOFT TISSUE RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRY; ARTIFACT; PROCEDURES; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARDS;

ARTIFACTS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 77957203698     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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