Deformable image registration for radiation therapy: principle, methods, applications and evaluation

B Rigaud, A Simon, J Castelli, C Lafond, O Acosta… - Acta …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Deformable image registration (DIR) is increasingly used in the field of
radiation therapy (RT) to account for anatomical deformations. The aims of this paper are to …

Patient‐specific validation of deformable image registration in radiation therapy: overview and caveats

C Paganelli, G Meschini, S Molinelli, M Riboldi… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last few decades, deformable image registration (DIR) has gained popularity in
image‐guided radiation therapy for a number of applications, such as contour propagation …

The ANACONDA algorithm for deformable image registration in radiotherapy

O Weistrand, S Svensson - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this work was to describe a versatile algorithm for deformable
image registration with applications in radiotherapy and to validate it on thoracic 4DCT data …

Proton dose calculation on scatter‐corrected CBCT image: feasibility study for adaptive proton therapy

YK Park, GC Sharp, J Phillips, BA Winey - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To demonstrate the feasibility of proton dose calculation on scatter‐corrected cone‐
beam computed tomographic (CBCT) images for the purpose of adaptive proton therapy …

Usefulness of hybrid deformable image registration algorithms in prostate radiation therapy

K Motegi, H Tachibana, A Motegi… - Journal of applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
To evaluate the accuracy of commercially available hybrid deformable image registration
(DIR) algorithms when using planning CT (pCT) and daily cone‐beam computed …

Accuracy of radiotherapy dose calculations based on cone-beam CT: comparison of deformable registration and image correction based methods

TE Marchant, KD Joshi, CJ Moore - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Radiotherapy dose calculations based on cone-beam CT (CBCT) images can be inaccurate
due to unreliable Hounsfield units (HU) in the CBCT. Deformable image registration of …

Contouring variability of human-and deformable-generated contours in radiotherapy for prostate cancer

SJ Gardner, N Wen, J Kim, C Liu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This study was designed to evaluate contouring variability of human-and deformable-
generated contours on planning CT (PCT) and CBCT for ten patients with low-or …

Validation of a deformable image registration technique for cone beam CT‐based dose verification

M Moteabbed, GC Sharp, Y Wang, A Trofimov… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: As radiation therapy evolves toward more adaptive techniques, image guidance
plays an increasingly important role, not only in patient setup but also in monitoring the …

Assessment of CT to CBCT contour mapping for radiomic feature analysis in prostate cancer

RM Schmidt, R Delgadillo, JC Ford, KR Padgett… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
This study provides a quantitative assessment of the accuracy of a commercially available
deformable image registration (DIR) algorithm to automatically generate prostate contours …

Caution must be exercised when performing deformable dose accumulation for tumors undergoing mass changes during fractionated radiation therapy

H Zhong, IJ Chetty - … journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2017 - redjournal.org
Tumor regression during the course of fractionated radiation treatment has been observed in
many clinical circumstances (1). One common approach (2-4) to account for these changes …