The evaluation of a deformable image registration segmentation technique for semi-automating internal target volume (ITV) production from 4DCT images of lung stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) patients

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 277-283

  Speight, Richard ^a   Sykes, Jonathan ^a   Lindsay, Rebecca ^a   Franks, Kevin ^b   Thwaites, David ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4DCT; Atlas based Automatic Segmentation; Automatic ITV generation; Deformable registration; SBRT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; HUMAN; IMAGING; LUNG TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 79951853242     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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