Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 474-478 , December 2009

A pre-clinical assessment of an atlas-based automatic segmentation tool for the head and neck

  • Richard Sims

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Coventry Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, Coventry, UK
    • University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Radiotherapy Physics, Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals of Leicester, Infirmary Close, Leicester, LE1 5WW, UK.
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  • Aurelie Isambert

      Affiliations

    • Institut Gustave-Roussy (IGR), Villejuif, France
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  • Vincent Grégoire

      Affiliations

    • Saint Luc University Hospital (UCL), Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • François Bidault

      Affiliations

    • Institut Gustave-Roussy (IGR), Villejuif, France
    • ,
  • Lydia Fresco

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Coventry Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, Coventry, UK
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  • John Sage

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Coventry Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, Coventry, UK
    • University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
    • ,
  • John Mills

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Coventry Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, Coventry, UK
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  • Jean Bourhis

      Affiliations

    • Institut Gustave-Roussy (IGR), Villejuif, France
    • ,
  • Dimitri Lefkopoulos

      Affiliations

    • Institut Gustave-Roussy (IGR), Villejuif, France
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  • Olivier Commowick

      Affiliations

    • DosiSoft, Cachan, France
    • Institut National de Recherche et Informatique, Sophia Antipolis, France
    • Present address: Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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  • Mehdi Benkebil

      Affiliations

    • DosiSoft, Cachan, France
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  • Grégoire Malandain

      Affiliations

    • Institut National de Recherche et Informatique, Sophia Antipolis, France

Received 12 January 2009 ,Accepted 13 August 2009.

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PII: S0167-8140(09)00449-6

doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.08.013

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 474-478 , December 2009

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