ABSTRACT
Combining imaging from different sources leads to an improved understanding of a patient’s anatomical and physiologic processes that is essential in designing advanced treatment plans. A key piece of technology in this context is image registration that, when coupled with a rigid-type transform, is used to align image content and, when used with a deformable or elastic transform, can quantify changes in the patient’s anatomy among image studies acquired at different time points. This chapter presents both the technical aspects of integrating various imaging modalities into a common system and its application to radiation oncology.
