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Images from CT, MRI, PET, and other medical instrumentation have become central to the radiotherapy process in the past two decades, thus requiring medical physicists, clinicians, dosimetrists, radiation therapists, and trainees to integrate and segment these images efficiently and accurately in a clinical environment. This book presents an up-t
List of contents
Image Processing in Radiotherapy Applications: Image Processing in Adaptive Radiotherapy. Online Monitoring, Tracking, and Dose Accumulation. Validation of Image Registration.
Registration: Similarity Metrics. Parametric Image Registration. Toward Realistic Biomechanical-Based Modeling for Image-Guided Radiation. Nonparametric: Demons, Diffusion, and Viscous-Fluid Approaches. Optimization in Image Registration.
Segmentation: Basic Segmentation. Deformable Shape Models for Image Segmentation. Level Set for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning. Atlas-Based Segmentation: Concepts and Applications.
Advanced Imaging Techniques: Advances in 3D Image Reconstruction. Advancements in Respiratory Sorting: The Future of Respiratory Sorting. In-Room Imaging Techniques. Affine Medical Image Registration Using Graphics Processing Unit. Index.
About the author
Kristy K. Brock is an associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan, where she received her Ph.D. in nuclear engineering and radiological sciences. She is a board member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the therapy science director for the 2013 AAPM 2013 annual meeting, an editorial board member of
Medical Physics, and a diplomat in therapeutic radiological physics of the American Board of Radiology. Her research focuses on deformable registration for dose accumulation and adaptive radiotherapy, the application of biomechanical modeling in correlative pathology, and therapy response assessment.
Summary
Images from CT, MRI, PET, and other medical instrumentation have become central to the radiotherapy process in the past two decades, thus requiring medical physicists, clinicians, dosimetrists, radiation therapists, and trainees to integrate and segment these images efficiently and accurately in a clinical environment. This book presents an up-t