Image registration
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Find translation….deformation to align two 2D..4D data
sets (2 .. 1000000+ degrees of freedom)
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Allows combination of scans on a point by point basis
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Applications:
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Complementary data
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Motion tracking and compensation (imaging)
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Image guidance
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Adaptive radiotherapy
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Response monitoring
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Dose accumulation
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Data mining
easy
difficult