Deformable planning CT to cone-beam CT image registration in head-and-neck cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2088-2094

  Hou, Jidong ^a   Guerrero, Mariana ^a   Chen, Wenjuan ^b   D'Souza, Warren D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

adaptive radiation therapy; cone beam CT; deformable image registration; response evaluation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISEASES; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE (CBCT); CONE-BEAM CT; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; MULTIRESOLUTION SCHEME; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; RESPONSE EVALUATION; TARGET REGISTRATION ERRORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79953657721     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3554647     Document Type: Article

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