Alignment of multi-segmented anatomical features from radiation therapy images by using least square fitting

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2069-2075

  Cai, Jialing ^a   Zhou, Shao Qun ^a   Hopkinson, James ^a   Saxena, V Amod ^a   Chu, James ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

image registration; portal film; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ANATOMICAL FEATURES; CLINICAL IMAGES; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; LEAST-SQUARE FITTING; MINIMIZATION METHODS; MISREGISTRATION; OPTIMAL TRANSFORMATION; PATIENT POSITION VERIFICATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 0030456927     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597844     Document Type: Article

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