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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Radiol. 2009 Jun 6;19(11):2647–2653. doi: 10.1007/s00330-009-1452-0

Table 2.

The effects of the average 2D/3D registration error on target localization for target depths between 50 and 300 mm, given together with estimated standard deviations

Modeled error of registration method (mm)
Lesion
depth
(mm)
Manual
registration
Manual registration and
registration algorithm
Registration
algorithm
stand-alone
50 6.4±3.4 2.7±2.8 3.6±2.5
100 8.7±5.3 4.1±4.8 6.2±5.1
150 11.1±7.5 5.5±7.0 8.7±7.6
200 13.4±9.8 6.9±9.2 11.2±10.2
250 15.8±12.1 8.3±11.5 13.8±12.7
300 18.1±14.4 9.7±13.7 16.3±15.2

These values are modeled using the simplified geometric approach given in the Methods section. The impact of registration error on target localization inside the body can be estimated from these data