Radiotherapy, Image-Guided

Known as: IGRT, Image-Guided Radiation Therapies, Image-guided radiation therapy 
A procedure that uses a computer to create a picture of a tumor to help guide the radiation beam during radiation therapy. The pictures are made… (More)
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Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Salient Band Selection for Hyperspectral Image Classification via Manifold Ranking
Saliency detection has been a hot topic in recent years, and many efforts have been devoted in this area. Unfortunately, the… (More)
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Improved clinical outcomes with high-dose image guided radiotherapy compared with non-IGRT for the treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer.
PURPOSE To compare toxicity profiles and biochemical tumor control outcomes between patients treated with high-dose image-guided… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Adult SVZ stem cells lie in a vascular niche: a quantitative analysis of niche cell-cell interactions.
There is an emerging understanding of the importance of the vascular system within stem cell niches. Here, we examine whether… (More)
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Innovations in image-guided radiotherapy
The limited ability to control for the location of a tumour compromises the accuracy with which radiation can be delivered to… (More)
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Advances in image-guided radiation therapy.
Imaging is central to radiation oncology practice, with advances in radiation oncology occurring in parallel to advances in… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
X-ray volumetric imaging in image-guided radiotherapy: the new standard in on-treatment imaging.
PURPOSE X-ray volumetric imaging (XVI) for the first time allows for the on-treatment acquisition of three-dimensional (3D) kV… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Comparison of ultrasound and implanted seed marker prostate localization methods: Implications for image-guided radiotherapy.
PURPOSE To analyze two methods of image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) for external beam radiotherapy of prostate cancer. METHODS… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Validation of an accelerated 'demons' algorithm for deformable image registration in radiation therapy.
A greyscale-based fully automatic deformable image registration algorithm, originally known as the 'demons' algorithm, was… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Evaluation of ultrasound-based prostate localization for image-guided radiotherapy.
To evaluate the use of the ultrasound-based BAT system for daily prostate alignment. Prostate alignments using the BAT system… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Flat-panel cone-beam computed tomography for image-guided radiation therapy.
PURPOSE Geometric uncertainties in the process of radiation planning and delivery constrain dose escalation and induce normal… (More)
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