A voxel-based finite element model for the prediction of bladder deformation

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-65

  Chai, Xiangfei ^a   Van Herk, Marcel ^b   Hulshof, Maarten C C M ^a   Bel, Arjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bladder model; finite element method; image guided radiotherapy; voxel based hexahedral mesh

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DEFORMATION; EFFICIENCY; FORECASTING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MESH GENERATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; APPROPRIATE MATERIALS; HEXAHEDRAL MESH; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MANUAL INTERVENTION; MEAN STANDARD DEVIATION; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; VOXEL BASED MODELING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84855417482     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3668060     Document Type: Article

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