Towards inherently distortion-free MR images for image-guided radiotherapy on an MRI accelerator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1349-1358

  Crijns, S P M ^a   Bakker, C J G ^a   Seevinck, P R ^b   De Leeuw, H ^b   Lagendijk, J J W ^a   Raaymakers, B W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION FACTORS; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; DISPLAY IMAGE; GEOMETRICAL ACCURACY; HIGH ACCELERATION; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IN-VIVO IMAGES; MR IMAGES; OFF-RESONANCE; ONLINE IMAGES; PHANTOM IMAGES; PHASE ENCODING; SPIN ECHO; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNDER-SAMPLING; UNDISTORTED IMAGES; WORLD COORDINATES;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84857510909     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/5/1349     Document Type: Article

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