Four-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging-based system for radiotherapy of lung cancer

• Main Author: Yang, Yuxin
• Other Authors: Poh Chueh Loo
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision; DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering; DRNTU::Science::Medicine::Computer applications
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/61606
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Lung cancer has been the most common and the most deadly cancer in the world for several decades. For current 3D-radiotherapy (RT) especially for lung cancer patients, respiration motion poses a major challenge. Consequently, four-dimensional (3D + time) RT, which involves the use of 4D imaging moda...