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Fig. 3 | Radiation Oncology

Fig. 3

From: Prospective, longitudinal, multi-modal functional imaging for radical chemo-IMRT treatment of locally advanced head and neck cancer: the INSIGHT study

Fig. 3

INSIGHT study data processing pathways. Anatomical and functional image data are acquired using RMH clinical systems and backed up on to the RMH clinical picture archiving and storage system (PACS). Anonymised image data are transferred electronically from the clinical PACS to a dedicated research PACS system, based on XNAT [56, 57]. Data are extracted from XNAT for subsequent processing, such as the generation of functional imaging parameter maps, and the results are stored within the same XNAT database. The XNAT system can communicate with the radiotherapy treatment planning systems (RTPS) that are used for multi-modality image co-registration and region-of-interest (ROI) volume definition. Voxel-wise functional image data from ROIs are extracted from image data using an RTPS and stored in XNAT from which they are then retrieved for subsequent statistical analysis

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Radiation Oncology

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