MRI-based treatment planning with pseudo CT generated through atlas registration

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Uh, Jinsoo ^a   Merchant, Thomas E ^a   Li, Yimei ^a   Li, Xingyu ^a   Hua, Chiaho ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

atlas approach; MRI based treatment planning; pattern recognition with Gaussian process; pseudo CT

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DEFORMATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PEDIATRICS; TUMORS;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; ATLAS APPROACH; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOOK; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

WATER;

ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 84899659680     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4873315     Document Type: Article

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