Multi-modal medical image integration to optimize radiotherapy planning in lung cancer treatment

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1399-1408

  Rizzo, Giovanna ^a,b,f   Cattaneo, G M ^b   Castellone, P ^b,c   Castiglioni, I ^a,b   Ceresoli, G L ^b   Messa, C ^a,b,e   Landoni, C ^a,b,e   Gilardi, M C ^a,b,e   Arienti, R ^a,e   Cerutti, S ^d   Fazio, F ^a,b,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image registration; Multimodal analysis; PET; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PATIENT TREATMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIZE DETERMINATION; TUMORS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION; MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 8644231002     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/B:ABME.0000042227.37183.1c     Document Type: Article

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