Automated 2D-3D registration of a radiograph and a cone beam CT using line-segment enhancement

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1398-1411

  Munbodh, Reshma ^a,f   Jaffray, David A ^b   Moseley, Douglas J ^b   Chen, Zhe ^c   Knisely, Jonathan P S ^c   Cathier, Pascal ^d   Duncan, James S ^a,e  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INRIA   (France)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Image registration; Portal; Prostate radiotherapy; Radiograph; Setup verification; Sticks

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE REGISTRATION; PHANTOMS; PORTALS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CONE-BEAM CT; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; LINEAR IMAGE FEATURES; PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOGRAPH; STICKS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) REGISTRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BONE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOGRAPHY; REGISTRATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 33646437820     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2192621     Document Type: Article

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