Respiratory motion sampling in 4DCT reconstruction for radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1696-1703

  Chi, Yuwei ^a   Liang, Jian ^b   Qin, Xu ^b   Yan, Di ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

4DCT; dose calculation; k means clustering; respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

4D-CT RECONSTRUCTION; 4DCT; DOSE CALCULATION; OPTIMIZATION MODELING; OPTIMIZATION VARIABLES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RESIDUAL ERROR ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

SORTING;

EID: 84861585709     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3691174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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