Technical Note: DIRART - A software suite for deformable image registration and adaptive radiotherapy research

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-77

  Yang, Deshan ^a   Brame, Scott ^a   El Naqa, Issam ^a   Aditya, Apte ^a   Wu, Yu ^a   Murty Goddu, S ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Deasy, Joseph O ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive radiotherapy; CERR; deformation; image processing; image registration; image segmentation; MATLAB; open source; voxel mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTS COMPUTING; DEFORMATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATLAB; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; RADIOTHERAPY; VISUALIZATION;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; CERR; COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DISPLACEMENT VECTOR FIELDS; IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHM; OPEN SOURCES; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

EID: 78650911256     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3521468     Document Type: Article

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