Automated breathing motion tracking for 4D computed tomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 3219-3222

  El Naqa, I ^a   Low, D A ^a   Deasy, J O ^a   Amini, A ^a   Parikh, P ^a   Nystrom, M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRP); MANUAL IDENTIFICATION; MOTION TRACKING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; RADIATION; TRAJECTORIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11944269475     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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