Contouring variability of human- and deformable-generated contours in radiotherapy for prostate cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4429-4447

  Gardner, Stephen J ^a   Wen, Ning ^a   Kim, Jinkoo ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Pradhan, Deepak ^a   Aref, Ibrahim ^a   Cattaneo, Richard ^a   Vance, Sean ^a   Movsas, Benjamin ^a   Chetty, Indrin J ^a   Elshaikh, Mohamed A ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive radiotherapy; cone beam CT; contouring variation; deformable registration; prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; GEOMETRY; INTERPOLATION; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; CONE-BEAM CT; CONTOURING; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; PROSTATE CANCERS;

DEFORMATION;

ALGORITHM; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84930225241     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/11/4429     Document Type: Article

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