@inproceedings{94fa1111ed024045a7439bff42bba51f,
title = "Deformable image registration for multimodal lung-cancer staging",
abstract = "Positron emission tomography (PET) and X-ray computed tomography (CT) serve as major diagnostic imaging modalities in the lung-cancer staging process. Modern scanners provide co-registered whole-body PET/CT studies, collected while the patient breathes freely, and high-resolution chest CT scans, collected under a brief patient breath hold. Unfortunately, no method exists for registering a PET/CT study into the space of a high-resolution chest CT scan. If this could be done, vital diagnostic information offered by the PET/CT study could be brought seamlessly into the procedure plan used during live cancer-staging bronchoscopy. We propose a method for the deformable registration of whole-body PET/CT data into the space of a high-resolution chest CT study. We then demonstrate its potential for procedure planning and subsequent use in multimodal image-guided bronchoscopy.",
author = "Ronnarit Cheirsilp and Xiaonan Zang and Rebecca Bascom and Thomas Allen and Rickhesvar Mahraj and Higgins, {William Evan}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 SPIE.; Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing ; Conference date: 01-03-2016 Through 03-03-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1117/12.2208482",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Styner, {Martin A.} and Angelini, {Elsa D.} and Angelini, {Elsa D.}",
booktitle = "Medical Imaging 2016",
address = "United States",
}