Geometry calibration for X-ray equipment in radiation treatment devices and estimation of remaining patient alignment errors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6913, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Selby, Boris P ^a   Sakas, Georgios ^b   Walter, Stefan ^a   Stilla, Uwe ^c  

^a Medcom GmbH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alignment correction; Calibration; Digital X ray; Error estimation; Image registration; Image guided radiotherapy; Stereo geometry; Template matching

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOLOGY;

DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHS; RADIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; STEREO GEOMETRY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 43149093167     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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