Respiratory motion estimation from slowly rotating x-ray projections: Theory and simulation

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 984-991

  Zeng, Rongping ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a   Balter, James M ^b  

^a The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

B spline; Cone beam projection; Nonrigid deformation; Regularized likelihood estimation; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST FUNCTIONS; DEFORMATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; X RAYS;

B SPLINES; CONE-BEAM PROJECTION; LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NON-RIGID DEFORMATION; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; THEORY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 17844409366     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1879132     Document Type: Article

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