Adaptive breast radiation therapy using modeling of tissue mechanics: A breast tissue segmentation study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Juneja, Prabhjot ^a   Harris, Emma J ^a   Kirby, Anna M ^b   Evans, Philip M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RADIATION THERAPY; BREAST TISSUES; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COMPOSITION ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CT DATA; CT IMAGING; DATA SETS; EXPERT ASSESSMENT; FIBROGLANDULAR; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; FUZZY C MEAN; K-MEANS; PHYSICAL DENSITY; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; SUPINE POSITION; THRESHOLDING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTIONS; TISSUE MECHANICS; TISSUE MODELING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; PRONE POSITION; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 84866739082     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.05.014     Document Type: Article

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