Comparison of different methods of incorporating respiratory motion for lung cancer tumor volume delineation on PET images: A simulation study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7409-7430

  Hatt, Mathieu ^a   Maitre, Amandine Le ^a,b   Wallach, Daphné ^a,c   Fayad, Hadi ^a   Visvikis, Dimitris ^a  

^a CHU MORVAN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; BREATHING MOTIONS; ELASTIC REGISTRATION; INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME; LUNG CANCER; PET IMAGES; PHILIPS; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING; RANGE OF MOTIONS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SIMULATED DATASETS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SUPER RESOLUTION; TARGET VOLUMES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84869034289     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/22/7409     Document Type: Article

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