Registration of electronic portal images for patient set-up verification

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3279-3289

  Matsopoulos, George K ^a   Asvestas, Pantelis A ^a   Delibasis, Konstantinos K ^a   Kouloulias, Vassilios ^a   Uzunoglu, Nikolaos ^a   Karaiskos, Pantelis ^b   Sandilos, Panagiotis ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS (DRR); IMAGE REGISTRATION;

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTICAL ROTATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS;

EID: 4344686934     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/14/018     Document Type: Article

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