3D interfractional patient position verification using 2D-3D registration of orthogonal images

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1420-1439

  Jans, H S ^a   Syme, A M ^a   Rathee, S ^a   Fallone, B G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

2D 3D rigid registration; 6 DOF; Fractionated radiation therapy; Image processing; Mutual information; NTCP; Orthogonal epid images; Patient setup error; TCP

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE REGISTRATION; PIXELS; RADIOTHERAPY; ROTATION;

6 DOF; FRACTIONATED RADIATION; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NTCP; ORTHOGONAL EPID IMAGES; PATIENT SETUP ERRORS; RIGID REGISTRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REGISTRATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 33646446613     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2192907     Document Type: Article

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