Improving image-guided radiation therapy of lung cancer by reconstructing 4D-CT from a single free-breathing 3D-CT on the treatment day

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7694-7709

  Wu, Guorong ^a   Lian, Jun ^a   Shen, Dinggang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT reconstruction; image guided radiation therapy; lung cancer; spatial temporal registration; super resolution 4D CT model

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TUMORS;

4D-CT RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG CANCER; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SUPER RESOLUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870916921     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4768226     Document Type: Article

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