A phantom evaluation of a stereo-vision surface imaging system for radiotherapy patient setup

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2753-2762

  Bert, Christoph ^a,b   Metheany, Katherine G ^b   Doppke, Karen ^c   Chen, George T Y ^c  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Patient positioning; Photogrammetry; Quality assurance; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; ALIGNMENT; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GATING AND FEEDING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; METADATA; PHANTOMS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; STATISTICS; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; STEREO VISION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE TESTING; SYSTEM STABILITY; TEXTURES; TOPOLOGY; TRAJECTORIES;

CLOSE RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY; DIGITAL CAMERA IMAGES; EXTERNAL BEAM IRRADIATION; FRACTIONATED RADIOTHERAPY; PATIENT POSITIONING; RIGID BODY TRANSFORMATION; THREE TRANSLATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SURFACES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFRARED RADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 25644432884     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1984263     Document Type: Article

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