An automatic six-degree-of-freedom image registration algorithm for image-guided frameless stereotaxic radiosurgery

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 857-866

  Murphy, Martin J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); IMAGE REGISTRATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY CAMERAS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHM; MEASUREMENTS OF; POSITION AND ORIENTATIONS; REAL-TIME X-RAYS; SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT SITES; TREATMENT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030940761     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598005     Document Type: Article

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