MRI simulation: End-to-end testing for prostate radiation therapy using geometric pelvic MRI phantoms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3097-3109

  Sun, Jidi ^a   Dowling, Jason ^b   Pichler, Peter ^c   Menk, Fred ^a   Rivest Henault, David ^b   Lambert, Jonathan ^a,d   Parker, Joel ^c   Arm, Jameen ^c   Best, Leah ^c   Martin, Jarad ^a,c   Denham, James W ^a,c   Greer, Peter B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Department of Medical Physics   (Australia)

Author keywords

MRI simulation; prostate cancer; radiotherapy treatment planning

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; GOLD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; MRI SIMULATION; PROSTATE CANCERS; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PELVIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84927600766     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/8/3097     Document Type: Article

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