Feasibility of automatic marker detection with an a-Si flat-panel imager

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1219-1230

  Nederveen, A J ^a   Lagendijk, J J W ^a   Hofman, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; IMAGE SENSORS; PORTALS;

AUTOMATIC MARKER DETECTION;

MEDICINE;

GOLD; SILICON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMPLANT; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; GOLD; HUMANS; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SILICON;

EID: 0035062851     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/4/321     Document Type: Article

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