Use of weekly 4DCT-based ventilation maps to quantify changes in lung function for patients undergoing radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 289-298

  Vinogradskiy, Yevgeniy Y ^a,b   Castillo, Richard ^a   Castillo, Edward ^a,c   Chandler, Adam ^a,d   Martel, Mary K ^a   Guerrero, Thomas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

^d GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

deformable image registration; lung cancer; lung function; ventilation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; VENTILATION;

DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SPATIAL REGISTRATIONS; VENTILATION DISTRIBUTIONS;

TUMORS;

EID: 84855455343     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3668056     Document Type: Article

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