A magnetic resonance imaging-based approach to quantify radiation-induced normal tissue injuries applied to trismus in head and neck cancer
Author(s) -
Maria Thor,
Neelam Tyagi,
Vaios Hatzoglou,
Aditya Apte,
Ziad Saleh,
Nadeem Riaz,
Nancy Y. Lee,
Joseph O. Deasy
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
physics and imaging in radiation oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.777
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 2405-6316
DOI - 10.1016/j.phro.2017.02.006
Subject(s) - trismus , medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , nuclear medicine , receiver operating characteristic , correlation , rank correlation , masseter muscle , head and neck cancer , radiation therapy , mathematics , anatomy , radiology , geometry , statistics
In this study we investigated the ability of textures from T1-weighted MRI scans post-contrast (T1w post ) to identify the critical muscle(s) for radiation-induced trismus.
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