A feasibility study of mutual information based setup error estimation for radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2507-2517

  Kim, Jeongtae ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a   Lam, Kwok L ^a   Balter, James M ^a   Ten Haken, Randall K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Image registration; Mutual information; Parameter estimation; Radiotherapy; Setup error

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; INTENSITY DIFFERENCE; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; REGISTRATION METHODS; ROTATIONAL PARAMETERS; SETUP ERRORS; TRANSLATIONAL PARAMETERS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; ERROR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; ROTATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0035661024     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1420395     Document Type: Article

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