Quick search Find article
Quick search
Find article

A feasibility study to investigate the use of thin-plate splines to account for prostate deformation

Niranjan Venugopal1,2, Boyd McCurdy1,2, Alex Hnatov3 and Arbind Dubey3

Show affiliations


Image registration is an important step in the radiotherapy treatment planning process. It provides a method of fusing different types of diagnostic imaging information. One such application is to combine magnetic resonance spectroscopic images (MRSI) of the prostate with anatomical MRI and/or computed tomography images that are routinely used in the radiation treatment planning of prostate cancer. MRSI provides in vivo information related to the underlying metabolic activity of tissues, and can be related to the presence of cancer. However, the inflated endorectal coil required during MRS imaging poses a potential problem by deforming the prostate when it is filled with ~100 cm3 of air during image acquisition. This pushes the prostate superiorly/anteriorly, deforming the prostate and consequently the spectroscopic imaging data in a nonlinear manner. In this application, the coil-deformed MRS images are warped back to a non-deformed state, using a single data set. A nonlinear warping algorithm is presented to achieve this. Results indicate that the algorithm attains an accuracy of 97% (4 cm3 difference) when reproducing the total prostate volume compared to a Radiation Oncologist defined prostate volume. This difference is slightly smaller than the measured intra-operator variance of ±1.5 cm3 (deflated coil) and the measured algorithm variance of ±1.0 cm3. Additionally, intraprostatic nodules were used to assess the accuracy of the warping algorithm in regions inside the prostate. While choosing anatomical tie points along the external prostate surface, analysis of the nodules revealed the algorithm accuracy reduced to 63–93%.


PACS

87.57.N- Image analysis

87.19.R- Mechanical and electrical properties of tissues and organs

87.55.-x Treatment strategy

87.61.Tg Clinical applications

87.59.bd Computed radiography

Subjects

Biological physics

Medical physics

Dates

Issue 12 (21 June 2005)

Received 24 June 2004, in final form 4 April 2005

Published 1 June 2005



  1. A feasibility study to investigate the use of thin-plate splines to account for prostate deformation

    Niranjan Venugopal et al 2005 Phys. Med. Biol. 50 2871

  2. Optically Thin Irregularities in the Penumbrae of Sunspots

    J. Sánchez Almeida 1998 ApJ 497 967

  3. Calculation of primitive 6-j symbols

    B G Searle and P H Butler 1988 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 21 3041

  4. Erratum: "Molecular Gas in Spiral Galaxies: A New Warm Phase at Large Galactocentric Distances?" (ApJ, 579, 270 [2002])

    P. P. Papadopoulos et al. 2003 ApJ 583 524

  5. Quaternionic bound states

    Stefano De Leo and Gisele C Ducati 2005 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 38 3443

  6. Ferroelectric phase transition in hydrogen-bonded 2-aminopyridine phosphate (NC4H4NH2)centerdotH3PO4

    Z Czapla et al 2003 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15 3793

  7. Langevin granulometry of the particle size distribution

    Attila Kákay et al 2004 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37 6027

  8. Structure of spinel at high temperature using in-situ XANES study at the Al and Mg K-edge

    D de Ligny et al 2009 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 190 012178

  9. Model of periodic filament formation in laterally coupled gas discharges

    Rimma Bektursunova 2004 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 37 2868

  10. High temperature self-assembly of Ag nanowires on vicinal Si(001)

    K R Roos et al 2005 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17 S1407

Related review articles

What's this?
View review articles related to this research to gain an insight into the key trends in this subject area. Related review articles are selected based on PACS/MSC codes, and are no more than three years old.

  1. SPECT detectors: the Anger Camera and beyond
  2. Review and current status of SPECT scatter correction
  3. Dynamic single photon emission computed tomography—basic principles and cardiac applications
More

View by subject




Export








Please login to access our web services, or create an account if you don't yet have one.

You must have cookies enabled in your web browser to be able to login.

Username
Password

Forgotten your password? Get a new one here.