Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 89, Issue 1 , Pages 1-12 , October 2008

Comparison of 12 deformable registration strategies in adaptive radiation therapy for the treatment of head and neck tumors

  • Pierre Castadot

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Université catholique de Louvain, St-Luc University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
    • These authors have equally contributed to this paper.
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  • John Aldo Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Université catholique de Louvain, St-Luc University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
    • These authors have equally contributed to this paper.
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  • Adriane Parraga

      Affiliations

    • Signal and Image Processing Laboratory, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
    • Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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  • Xavier Geets

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Université catholique de Louvain, St-Luc University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Benoît Macq

      Affiliations

    • Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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  • Vincent Grégoire

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Université catholique de Louvain, St-Luc University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Vincent Grégoire, Department of Radiation Oncology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate 10, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium.

Received 19 February 2008 ,Revised 9 April 2008 ,Accepted 20 April 2008.

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☆ Financial support: This work was supported by a grant from the Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) of Belgium (convention # 7.4583.07), by a grant from the Belgian Federation against Cancer (convention #SCIE 2003-23FR), by a grant from the “Cancéropôle du Nord-Ouest (France)”, by a grant from the Région wallonne of Belgium (convention PAINTER) and by the “Fonds J. Maisin” of the Université catholique de Louvain. John A. Lee is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the FNRS. The authors have no financial relationship with the organizations that sponsored the research.

☆☆ Statement: The authors have had full control of all primary data and agree to allow the journal to review their data if requested.

PII: S0167-8140(08)00230-2

doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.04.010

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 89, Issue 1 , Pages 1-12 , October 2008

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