Demons deformable registration of CT and cone-beam CT using an iterative intensity matching approach

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1785-1798

  Nithiananthan, Sajendra ^a   Schafer, Sebastian ^a   Uneri, Ali ^b   Mirota, Daniel J ^b   Stayman, J Webster ^a   Zbijewski, Wojciech ^a   Brock, Kristy K ^c   Daly, Michael J ^c   Chan, Harley ^c   Irish, Jonathan C ^d   Siewerdsen, Jeffrey H ^a,b,e  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; cone beam CT; deformable registration; Demons algorithm; image guided interventions

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ERRORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY; X RAYS;

CONE-BEAM CT; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTION; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; INTENSITY-BASED REGISTRATION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; REGISTRATION PROCESS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79953653669     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3555037     Document Type: Article

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