Image-based verification of patient setup and treatment geometry in radiotherapy

Thesis

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Table of contents

Section I Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction

Section II Application of external features for patient setup

Chapter 2 Feasability of geometrical verification of patient setup using body contours and computed tomography data

Chapter 3 Application of video imagining for improvement of patient setup

Section III Verification of dynamic IMRT

Chapter 4 Accurate measurement of the dynamic response of a scanning EPID

Chapter 5 A method for geometrical verification of dynamic intensity modulated radiotherapy using a scanning electronic portal imaging device

Chapter 6 Field shape verification of dynamic intensity modulated rediotherapy using an amorphous silicon flat panel imager

Section IV Verification of patient setup using portal imagines

Chapter 7 Evaluation of cost functions for grey value matching of two-dimensional images in radiotherapy

Section V Discussion and conclusions

Chapter 8 Discussion and conclusions

Summaries

Summary

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List of abbreviations

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