Technical note: A physical phantom for assessment of accuracy of deformable alignment algorithms

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2785-2788

  Kashani, Rojano ^a   Hub, Martina ^a   Kessler, Marc L ^a   Balter, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable alignment; IGRT; Image registration

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; DIGITAL STORAGE; IMAGE REGISTRATION; PHANTOMS;

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DEFORMATION FIELD; DEFORMATION PARAMETER; GROUND TRUTH DATA; IGRT; IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHM; THORACIC IMAGING;

DEFORMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX; VALIDATION PROCESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34347391909     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2739812     Document Type: Article

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