Assessment of a commercially available automatic deformable registration system

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 101-123

  Fallone, B Gino ^a,b   Rivest, D Ryan C ^a,b   Riauka, Terence A ^a,b   Murtha, Albert D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Commercial registration systems; Deformable image registration; Image guided radiation therapy; Registration validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956994298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v11i3.3175     Document Type: Article

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