Novel image registration quality evaluator (RQE) with an implementation for automated patient positioning in cranial radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2099-2112

  Wu, Jian ^a   Samant, Sanjiv S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image registration; Mutual information; Patient positioning; Portal imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY;

DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PORTAL IMAGING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECISION MAKING; IMAGING; OBSERVER BIAS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; REGISTRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34447305505     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2736783     Document Type: Article

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