AnalyzeDirect Coolens C, Evans PM, Seco J, Webb S, Blackall JM, Rietzel E, Chen GTY. The susceptibility of IMRT dose distributions to intrafraction organ motion: an investigation into smoothing filters derived from four dimensional computed tomography data. Med Phys. August 2006;33(8):2809-2818.
Publication Date
August 2006
How Analyze was Used
“The liver on the reference set was manually segmented with the ANALYZE software … to exclude any large discontinuities at the regions where the liver slides over adjacent organs.”
Keywords
Body Burden
Imaging, Three-Dimensional/methods
Liver Neoplasms/radiography/radiotherapy
Movement
Radiometry/methods
Radiotherapy Dosage
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted/methods
Radiotherapy, Conformal/methods
Relative Biological Effectiveness
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods
Viscera/physiopathology
Author Affiliation(s)
Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Downs Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5PT, UK. (CC, PME, JS, SW)
Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT UK. (JMB)
Radiotherapy Group, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114-2622, US. (ER, GTYC)
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Tags: Body Burden, Computer-Assisted Radiotherapy Planning/methods, Conformal Radiotherapy/methods, Liver Neoplasms/radiography/radiotherapy, Movement, Radiometry/methods, Radiotherapy Dosage, Relative Biological Effectiveness, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Three-Dimensional Imaging/methods, Viscera/physiopathology, X-Ray TomographyComputed/methods