IMAGE-BASED RESPIRATORY MOTION EXTRACTION AND RESPIRATION-CORRELATED CONE BEAM CT (4D-CBCT) RECONSTRUCTION

Accounting for respiration motion during imaging helps improve targeting precision in radiation therapy. Respiratory motion can be a major source of error in determining the position of thoracic and upper abdominal tumor targets during radiotherapy. Thus, extracting respiratory motion is a key task...

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Main Author: Dhou, Salam
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2013
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Online Access:http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/496
http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1495&context=etd