Automatic coregistration of volumetric images based on implanted fiducial markers

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4513-4523

  Koch, Martin ^a,b   Maltz, Jonathan S ^a   Belongie, Serge J ^c   Gangadharan, Bijumon ^a   Bose, Supratik ^a   Shukla, Himanshu ^a   Bani Hashemi, Ali R ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiducial markers; Image guided radiation therapy; Point based registration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISEASES; LARGE DATASET; LOCATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; LARGE DISPLACEMENTS; POINT-BASED REGISTRATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGING; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 52949112601     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2975153     Document Type: Article

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