Respiration-based sorting of dynamic MRI to derive representative 4D-MRI for radiotherapy planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Tryggestad, Erik ^a   Flammang, Aaron ^b   Han Oh, Sarah ^a   Hales, Russell ^a   Herman, Joseph ^a   McNutt, Todd ^a   Roland, Teboh ^a   Shea, Steven M ^b   Wong, John ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

4D MRI; retrospective slice stacking

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LOCATION;

BREATHING VARIABILITY; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING; RETROSPECTIVE SLICE STACKING; SIMILARITY METRICS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DIAPHRAGM; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY;

DIAPHRAGM; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877248297     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4800808     Document Type: Article

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