Cone-beam CT using a mobile C-arm: A registration solution for IGRT with an optical tracking system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3389-3404

  Sorensen, S ^a,d   Mitschke, M ^b   Solberg, T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Waukesha Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ARBITRARY LOCATION; CONE-BEAM IMAGING; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY (IGRT); ISOCENTERS; OPTICAL TRACKING SYSTEM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; OPTICAL TRACKING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CALIBRATION; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249703998     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/12/005     Document Type: Article

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