Accuracy of inverse treatment planning on substitute CT images derived from MR data for brain lesions

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Jonsson, Joakim H ^a   Akhtari, Mohammad M ^a   Karlsson, Magnus G ^a   Johansson, Adam ^a   Asklund, Thomas ^a   Nyholm, Tufve ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

MRI; Radiotherapy; s CT; Substitute CT; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; PATIENT POSITIONING; PILOT STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GLIOBLASTOMA; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84939801969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13014-014-0308-1     Document Type: Article

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