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In conformal radiotherapy, the final position should be confirmed with a portal radiograph showing the relationship of the patient to the beam line. Historically, this radiograph is verified by manual comparison with a reconstructed radiograph of the expected patient position. In this paper, we discuss a new automatic verification system developed for the proton therapy facility at iThemba LABS1.
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Muller, N., Caarstens, C., van der Bijl, L. (2012). An Automatic Portal Radiograph Verification System for Proton Therapy. In: Gaol, F., Nguyen, Q. (eds) Proceedings of the 2011 2nd International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 144. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28314-7_3
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