Three‐dimensional verification of patient placement during radiotherapy using portal images

Abstract

The use of a single portal image for the three‐dimensional verification of patient placement during radiotherapy has been investigated. In this study, a deviation in the patient positioning is quantified by a three‐dimensional translation and rotation of the patient. The parameter values are obtained by fitting the projections of anatomical match points in the simulator and the portal image, using the three‐dimensional gantry coordinates of these points in the intended treatment setup. Two methods for finding an analytical solution for the fitting problem are presented. One method yields a solution from the affine transformation of the portal image (shift, rotation, magnification, and stretching in a specified direction) that fits the projections of the match points on the simulator image. The second and more accurate method yields a solution that expresses the estimated parameter values and their covariances as functions of image and three‐dimensional gantry coordinates of the selected matchpoints. The robustness and sensitivity of the solution is implicitly given by these expressions. The applications of these methods are illustrated by experiments with a human pelvic bone.

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