Abstracts

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Radiation Oncology

• Fragoso RC, Piper JW, Nelson AS, Harrison AS, Machtay M, Xiao Y. Evaluation of a Deformable Re-Contouring Method for Adaptive Therapy. ACRO Annual Meeting 2008 Poster Presentation.
• Choe J, Piper JW, Nelson AS, Nelson AD, Kuc N, Kulasekere R, Greskovich J. Comparison of Contour-to-CT Registration Techniques During Adaptive Re-planning of Radiation Therapy for Patients with Bulky Disease. IJROBP. 2007;69(3 Suppl S):S725.
• Piper JW. Evaluation of An Intensity-Based Free-form Deformable Registration Algorithm. Medical Physics. June 2007;34(6):2353-2354.
• Piper JW. Evaluation of a CT to Cone-beam CT Deformable Registration Algorithm. IJROBP. 2007;69(3 Suppl S):S418-419.
• Shen G, Nelson D, Adler L. PET Tumor Segmentation: Comparison of Gradient-Based Algorithm to Constant Threshold Algorithm. Medical Physics June 2007; 34(6):2395.
• Nelson AD, Mehta L, Faulhaber PF, Devlin AL, O’Donnell JK. Automated Alignment Accuracy of FDG-PET and Simulation CT for Radiation Therapy Planning of Lung Cancer. J Nuc Med 45:5, 373p, 2004.
• Hu K, Lin A, Young A, Kubicek G, Piper JW, Nelson AS, Dolan J, Masino R, Machtay M. Timesavings for Contour Generation in Head and Neck IMRT: Multi-institutional Experience with an Atlas-based Segmentation Method. IJROBP. 2008; 72(1) Suppl: S391.
• Lin A, Kubicek G, Piper JW, Nelson AS, Dicker AP, Valicenti RK. Atlas-Based Segmentation in Prostate IMRT: Timesavings in the Clinical Workflow. IJROBP. 2008; 72(1) Suppl: S328-329.
• Harrison AS, Piper JW, Kubicek G, Valicenti RK, Dicker AP, Galvin JM, Xiao Y. Feasibility Study of Atlas-Based IMRT Planning - What is the Accuracy if We Used the Best Matched IMRT Plan that We Apply Directly? IJROBP. 2008; 72(1) Suppl: S555.
• Fogh SE, Kubicek GJ, Axelrod R, Keane WM, Piper JW, Xiao Y, Machtay M. Utility of Deformable PET Fusion Gross Tumor Volumes in Head & Neck Malignancies. ASTRO Translational Advances in Radiation Oncology and Cancer Imaging 2008 Poster Presentation.

Radiology/Nuclear Medicine

• Shen G, Nelson D, Adler L. PET Tumor Segmentation: Comparison of Gradient-Based Algorithm to Constant Threshold Algorithm. Medical Physics June 2007; 34(6):2395.
• Nelson AD, Mehta L, Faulhaber PF, Devlin AL, O’Donnell JK. Automated Alignment Accuracy of FDG-PET and Simulation CT for Radiation Therapy Planning of Lung Cancer. J Nuc Med 45:5, 373p, 2004.
• Nelson AD, Devlin AL, Kraly BM, Ladas TP. Manual Fusion Reproducibility with ProstScint/CT Image Volumes. J Nuc Med 44:5, 267p, 2003.
• Piper JW. Evaluation of An Intensity-Based Free-form Deformable Registration Algorithm. Medical Physics. June 2007;34(6):2353-2354.
• Piper JW. Evaluation of a CT to Cone-beam CT Deformable Registration Algorithm. IJROBP. 2007;69(3 Suppl S):S418-419.
• Nelson AS, Piper JW, Friedland RP, Freeman B. Probabilistic Human Brain Atlas for functional imaging: Comparison to single brain atlases. J Nucl Med. 2007;48 Suppl 2:S403
• Piper JW. Quantitative comparison of Spatial Normalization Algorithms for 3D PET brain scans. J Nucl Med. 2007;48 Suppl 2:S403.
• Piper JW. Validation of an Artificial Neural Network Computer-Aided Diagnosis Scheme for Alzheimer’s Disease Using FDG-PET. Presented orally at the AMI/SMI Joint Molecular Imaging Conference, 2007.
• Piper JW, Nelson AS. Probabilistic Human Brain Atlas: Part 1, a surrogate for manual VOI definition. J Nucl Med. 2008;49 (Supplement 1):378p.
• Piper JW, Nelson AS. Probabilistic Human Brain Atlas: Part 2, validation with ADNI data. J Nucl Med. 2008;49 (Supplement 1):379p.
• Piper JW, Nelson AS. Automated Quantitative Analysis Methods for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease with 11C-PIB PET and 18F-FDG PET. World Molecular Imaging Congress Poster Presentation, 2008.

Neuroimaging

• Nelson AS, Piper JW, Friedland RP, Freeman B. Probabilistic Human Brain Atlas for functional imaging: Comparison to single brain atlases. J Nucl Med. 2007;48 Suppl 2:S403
• Piper JW. Quantitative comparison of Spatial Normalization Algorithms for 3D PET brain scans. J Nucl Med. 2007;48 Suppl 2:S403.
• Piper JW. Validation of an Artificial Neural Network Computer-Aided Diagnosis Scheme for Alzheimer’s Disease Using FDG-PET. Presented orally at the AMI/SMI Joint Molecular Imaging Conference, 2007.
• Piper JW, Nelson AS. Probabilistic Human Brain Atlas: Part 1, a surrogate for manual VOI definition. J Nucl Med. 2008;49 (Supplement 1):378p.
• Piper JW, Nelson AS. Probabilistic Human Brain Atlas: Part 2, validation with ADNI data. J Nucl Med. 2008;49 (Supplement 1):379p.
• Piper JW, Nelson AS. Automated Quantitative Analysis Methods for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease with 11C-PIB PET and 18F-FDG PET. World Molecular Imaging Congress Poster Presentation, 2008.