A frequency-based approach to locate common structure for 2D-3D intensity-based registration of setup images in prostate radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3005-3017

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

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

2D 3D image registration; Cone beam CT; Portal image; Prostate radiotherapy; Setup verification; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION FILTERING; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; UROLOGY;

2D-3D IMAGE REGISTRATIONS; 3D CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; CONE-BEAM CT; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PORTAL IMAGES; PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34347404304     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2745235     Document Type: Article

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