Improved quality of computed tomography substitute derived from magnetic resonance (MR) data by incorporation of spatial information-potential application for MR-only radiotherapy and attenuation correction in positron emission tomography

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1369-1373

  Johansson, Adam ^a   Garpebring, Anders ^a   Karlsson, Mikael ^a   Asklund, Thomas ^a   Nyholm, Tufve ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INNER EAR; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOT STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE REGRESSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOTHERAPY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PILOT PROJECTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84884571078     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2013.819119     Document Type: Article

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