Patient position verification using CT images

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 941-948

  Kreß, Jürgen ^a   Minohara, Shinichi ^b   Endo, Masahiro ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Image interpolation; Image registration; Minimization algorithms; Patient repositioning; Position verification

Indexed keywords

IMAGE REGISTRATION; INTERPOLATION; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

IMAGE INTERPOLATIONS; IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHM; MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PATIENT POSITION VERIFICATION; PATIENT REPOSITIONING; POSITIONING PROCEDURES; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; TRILINEAR INTERPOLATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0345211601     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598486     Document Type: Article

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