[Image registration for radiation therapy: Practical aspects and quality control]

Cancer Radiother. 2006 Sep;10(5):222-30. doi: 10.1016/j.canrad.2006.06.006. Epub 2006 Aug 4.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The development of conformal radiotherapy techniques (CRT) and intensity modulated CRT requires an accurate delineation of target structures and organs at risk. Thus, additional information provided by anatomical and/or functional imaging modalities can be used for volume of interest determination combined with traditionally used Computed Tomography imaging (CT): for instance, functional or morphological Magnetic Resonance Imaging (f MRI or m MRI) or Positron Emission Tomography (PET). A prerequisite to the simultaneous use of this information is image registration. Due to the differences between the images and the information they provide, a quality control of image registration process for radiotherapy is mandatory. The purpose of this article is to present the difficulties in implementing such controls and to show the necessity for a clinical validation on patient's images. The last part of this work presents the possible interest in using f MRI to help radio-oncologists in the treatment planning for gliomas associated to image coregistration and quality control considerations.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Diagnostic Imaging / methods*
  • Diagnostic Imaging / standards
  • Glioma / radiotherapy
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / standards
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Quality Control
  • Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted* / methods
  • Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted* / standards
  • Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted* / methods
  • Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted* / standards
  • Radiotherapy, Conformal
  • Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed