A novel method for automatic detection of patient out-of-plane rotation by comparing a single portal image to a reference image

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3678-3687

  Jabbari, Keyvan ^a   Pistorius, Stephen ^b  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image processing; Patient movement; Treatment verification

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT; RECOVERY; ROTATION;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; INPLANE ROTATION; ONE DIMENSION; OUT-OF-PLANE ROTATION; PATIENT MOVEMENT; PORTAL IMAGES; REFERENCE IMAGE; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATOR; TECHNIQUE; ALGORITHM; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; ROTATION; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROTATION;

EID: 33645008888     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2126567     Document Type: Article

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