Automatic registration of portal images and volumetric CT for patient positioning in radiation therapy

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 96-112

  Khamene, Ali ^a   Bloch, Peter ^b   Wein, Wolfgang ^a,c   Svatos, Michelle ^a   Sauer, Frank ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

2D 3D registration; DRR generation; Patient positioning; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS (DRRS); GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU); LOCAL NORMALIZED CORRELATION (LNC); PATIENT POSITIONING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSTURE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 28744457292     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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