An automatic contour propagation method to follow parotid gland deformation during head-and-neck cancer tomotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 775-791

  Faggiano, E ^a,b,c   Fiorino, C ^d   Scalco, E ^a   Broggi, S ^d   Cattaneo, M ^d   Maggiulli, E ^d   Dell'oca, I ^d   Di Muzio, N ^d   Calandrino, R ^d   Rizzo, G ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D SURFACE MESHES; ANOVA TEST; B-SPLINE; CENTER-OF-MASS; ELASTIC IMAGE REGISTRATION; FREE-FORM DEFORMATION; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HIGH VARIABILITY; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; MULTIPLE COMPARISON; PAROTID GLANDS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROPAGATION METHOD; TOMOTHERAPY; VARIABILITY INDEX; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS; WILCOXON SIGNED RANK TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); DEFORMATION; DISEASES; PATIENT MONITORING; SPLINES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TESTING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAROTID GLAND; RADIOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAROTID GLAND; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79751473673     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/3/015     Document Type: Article

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