Treatment field shape verification using elliptic Fourier transform

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2415-2421

  Gao, Qinghuai ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a   Nie, Kaiwen ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical imaging; Portal verification; Radiation therapy; Shape description

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RADIOTHERAPY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; DECISION PROCEDURE; FOURIER COEFFICIENTS; RADIATION TREATMENTS; REFERENCE FIELD; SHAPE DESCRIPTION; SHAPE DISTORTIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 0032720044     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598759     Document Type: Article

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