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ArticleJournal of applied clinical medical physics2014

Validation of nonrigid registration in pretreatment and follow-up PET/CT scans for quantification of tumor residue in lung cancer patients.

Jolanda Spijkerman, Davide Fontanarosa, Marco Das, Wouter Van Elmpt

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Article in Journal of applied clinical medical physics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. In vivo quantification of hypoxic and metabolic status of NSCLC tumors using [18F]HX4 and [18F]FDG-PET/CT imaging.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jolanda SpijkermanMaastricht University Medical Centre. Jolanda.Spijkerman@maastro.nl.
Davide Fontanarosa
Marco Das
Wouter Van Elmpt
Maastricht University Medical Centre · NLMaastro Clinic · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nonrigid registrations of pre- and postradiotherapy (RT) PET/CT scans of NSCLC patients were performed with different algorithms and validated tracking internal landmarks. Dice overlap ratios (DR) of high FDG-uptake areas in registered PET/CT scans were then calculated to study patterns of relapse. For 22 patients, pre- and post-RT PET/CT scans were registered first rigidly and then nonrigidly. For three patients, two types (based on Demons or Morphons) of nonrigid registration algorithms each with four different parameter settings were applied and assessed using landmark validation. The two best performing methods were tested on all patients, who were then classified into three groups: large (Group 1), minor (Group2) or insufficient improvement (Group 3) of registration accuracy. For Group 1 and 2, DRs between high FDG-uptake areas in pre- and post-RT PET scans were determined. Distances between corresponding landmarks on deformed pre-RT and post-RT scans decreased for all registration methods. Differences between Demons and Morphons methods were smaller than 1 mm. For Group 1, landmark distance decreased from 9.5 ± 2.1 mm to 3.8 ± 1.2 mm (mean ± 1 SD, p < 0.001), and for Group 3 from 13.6 ± 3.2 mm to 8.0 ± 2.2 mm (p = 0.025). No significant change was observed for Group 2 where distances decreased from 5.6± 1.3 mm to 4.5 ± 1.1 mm (p = 0.093). DRs of high FDG-uptake areas improved significantly after nonrigid registration for most patients in Group 1. Landmark validation of nonrigid registration methods for follow-up CT imaging in NSCLC is necessary. Nonrigid registration significantly improves matching between pre- and post-RT CT scans for a subset of patients, although not in all patients. Hence, the quality of the registration needs to be assessed for each patient individually. Successful nonrigid registration increased the overlap between pre- and post-RT high FDG-uptake regions.

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AlgorithmsCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungFemaleFluorodeoxyglucose F18Follow-Up StudiesHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLung NeoplasmsMaleNeoplasm, ResidualNeoplasm StagingPositron-Emission TomographyRadiopharmaceuticalsTomography, X-Ray ComputedFluorodeoxyglucose F18Radiopharmaceuticals

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PMID25207414
PMCPMC5875523
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