4D tumor centroid tracking using orthogonal 2D dynamic MRI: Implications for radiotherapy planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Tryggestad, Erik ^a,b   Flammang, Aaron ^c   Hales, Russell ^a   Herman, Joseph ^a   Lee, Junghoon ^a   McNutt, Todd ^a   Roland, Teboh ^a   Shea, Steven M ^c   Wong, John ^a  

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

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

4D tracking, dynamic MRI; 4D MRI, tumor tracking; tumor surrogate motion correlation

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; TEMPLATE MATCHING; TUMORS;

DYNAMIC MRI; INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME; MOTION CHARACTERIZATION; MOTION CORRELATION; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS; TEMPORAL SYNCHRONIZATION; TUMOR TRACKING;

MOTION TRACKING;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; BREATHING PATTERN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DETECTION; STEADY STATE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ADULT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEOPLASMS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM;

ADULT; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84883791397     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4818656     Document Type: Article

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