Rigid body tracking for radiosurgery
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1. A method, comprising:
- comparing a pair of X-ray images of a volume of interest with a corresponding pair of reference images from a 3-D scan of the volume of interest to determine a combined similarity measure between the pair of X-ray images and the corresponding pair of reference images; and
searching a combined registration search space to maximize the combined similarity measure, wherein the pair of X-ray images is jointly registered with the pair of reference images.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus compares in-treatment X-ray images of a volume with pre-treatment reference images of the volume and determines a combined similarity measure. A combined registration search space is searched to maximize the combined similarity measure and to jointly register the in-treatment X-ray images with the pre-treatment images.
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1. A method, comprising:
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comparing a pair of X-ray images of a volume of interest with a corresponding pair of reference images from a 3-D scan of the volume of interest to determine a combined similarity measure between the pair of X-ray images and the corresponding pair of reference images; and
searching a combined registration search space to maximize the combined similarity measure, wherein the pair of X-ray images is jointly registered with the pair of reference images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An article of manufacture, including machine-accessible instructions that when accessed by a data processing system, cause the data processing system to perform a method, comprising:
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comparing a pair of X-ray images of a volume of interest with a corresponding pair of reference images of the volume of interest to determine a combined similarity measure between the pair of X-ray images and the corresponding reference images; and
searching a combined registration search space to maximize the combined similarity measure, wherein the pair of X-ray images is jointly registered with the pair of reference images. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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- 15. A system comprising a processing device, wherein the processing device is configured to compare a pair of X-ray images of a volume of interest with a corresponding pair of reference images of the volume of interest to determine a combined similarity measure between the pair of X-ray images and the corresponding reference images, and wherein the processing device is further configured to search a combined registration search space to maximize the combined similarity measure, wherein the pair of X-ray images is jointly registered with the pair of reference images.
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23. An apparatus, comprising:
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means for comparing a pair of X-ray images of a volume of interest with a corresponding pair of reference images from a 3-D scan of the volume of interest to determine a combined similarity measure between the pair of X-ray images and the corresponding pair of reference images; and
means for searching a combined registration search space to maximize the combined similarity measure, wherein the pair of X-ray images is jointly registered with the pair of reference images. - View Dependent Claims (24)
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