Detection of fiducial gold markers for automatic on-line megavoltage position verification using a marker extraction kernel (MEK)

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1435-1442

  Nederveen, Aart ^a   Lagendijk, Jan ^a   Hofman, Pieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Detection algorithm; Gold markers; Portal imaging; Position verification

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MARKER;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION FIELD; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; GOLD; HUMANS; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0034661767     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00523-X     Document Type: Article

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