AnalyzeDirect Faggiano E, Cattaneo GM, Ciavarro C, Dell’Oca I, Persano D, Calandrino R, Rizzo G. Validation of an elastic registration technique to estimate anatomical lung modification in non-small-cell lung cancer tomotherapy. Radiat Oncol. April 2011;6:31.
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Publication Date
April 2011
How Analyze was Used
“A region growing algorithm, implemented in a commercial software package (Analyze 4.0…) was applied slice-by-slice for contour identification to both the kVCT and the MVCT images”
Keywords
Algorithms
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/pathology/radiotherapy
Humans
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted/methods
Lung/radiation effects
Lung Neoplasms/pathology/radiotherapy
Neoplasm Staging
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted/methods
Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated
Tomography, Spiral Computed/methods
Author Affiliation(s)
Istituto di Bioimmagini e Fisiologia Molecolare (IBFM), CNR, via Fratelli Cervi 93 Segrate (Milan), 20090, Italy. (EF, GR)
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. (EF)
Department of Medical Physics, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. (GMC, RC)
IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy. (CC)
Department of Radiotherapy, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. (IDO)
Sciences Institute, National University of General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (DP)
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. (GR)
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Tags: Algorithms, Computer-Assisted Image Interpretation/methods, Computer-Assisted Radiotherapy Planning/methods, Humans, Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy, Lung Neoplasms/pathology/radiotherapy, Lung/radiation effects, Neoplasm Staging, Non-Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma/pathology/radiotherapy, Spiral Computed Tomography/methods