A grey-level image alignment algorithm for registration of portal images and digitally reconstructed radiographs

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 75-84

  Hristov, D H ^a   Fallone, B G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; IMAGE CORRELATIONS; IN-PLANE TRANSLATIONS; LINEAR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION; OPTIMAL REGISTRATION; SEQUENTIAL APPROACH;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030067570     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597743     Document Type: Article

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