Investigating the dose dependence of median pixel value in CT lung images of patients undergoing stereotactic body radiation therapy.
Brianna KnollAlexandra R. CunliffeHania A. Al-HallaqRenuka MalikSamuel G. ArmatoPublished in: Medical Imaging: Computer-Aided Diagnosis (2012)
Keyphrases
- radiation therapy
- radiation dose
- ct images
- pixel values
- deformable registration
- inter patient
- image guidance
- radiation doses
- treatment plan
- treatment planning
- computed tomography
- x ray
- normal tissue
- pet ct
- prostate cancer
- region of interest
- computer tomography
- image quality
- image registration
- ct scans
- median filter
- low dose
- lung cancer patients
- medical imaging
- cancer patients
- accurate segmentation
- image analysis
- image guided
- surgical procedures
- three dimensional
- brain tumors
- medical images
- image data
- respiratory motion
- similarity metric
- gray level
- mr images
- brain images
- deformation field
- probability density function
- computer aided
- segmentation algorithm
- ct data
- clinical applications
- positron emission tomography
- computer assisted
- diffusion tensor
- imaging modalities
- input image