ESTERR-PRO: A Setup Verification Software System Using Electronic Portal Imaging

Asvestas, Pantelis A.; Delibasis, Konstantinos K.; Mouravliansky, Nikolaos A.; Matsopoulos, George K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/61523

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Volume 2007 | Article ID 061523 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/61523

ESTERR-PRO: A Setup Verification Software System Using Electronic Portal Imaging

Pantelis A. Asvestas,¹Konstantinos K. Delibasis,¹Nikolaos A. Mouravliansky,¹and George K. Matsopoulos¹

Academic Editor: Haim Azhari

Received26 Jan 2006

Revised05 Jul 2006

Accepted18 Jul 2006

Published22 Nov 2006

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to present and evaluate the performance of a new software-based registration system for patient setup verification, during radiotherapy, using electronic portal images. The estimation of setup errors, using the proposed system, can be accomplished by means of two alternate registration methods. (a) The portal image of the current fraction of the treatment is registered directly with the reference image (digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) or simulator image) using a modified manual technique. (b) The portal image of the current fraction of the treatment is registered with the portal image of the first fraction of the treatment (reference portal image) by applying a nearly automated technique based on self-organizing maps, whereas the reference portal has already been registered with a DRR or a simulator image. The proposed system was tested on phantom data and on data from six patients. The root mean square error (RMSE) of the setup estimates was 0.8±0.3 (mean value ± standard deviation) for the phantom data and 0.3±0.3 for the patient data, respectively, by applying the two methodologies. Furthermore, statistical analysis by means of the Wilcoxon nonparametric signed test showed that the results that were obtained by the two methods did not differ significantly (P value >0.05).

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Copyright © 2007 Pantelis A. Asvestas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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