Evaluation and Comparison of Force Terms for the Estimation of Lung Motion by Non-linear Registration of 4D-CT Image Data

The estimation of respiratory lung motion is a basic precondition for the analysis of breathing dynamics and its impact on radiotherapeutic treatment of lung tumors. For this purpose, a common approach is to perform a non-linear registration of the time frames of 4D image data.

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