FTRAC - A robust fluoroscope tracking fiducial

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3185-3198

  Jain, Ameet Kumar ^a   Mustafa, Tabish ^a   Zhou, Yu ^b   Burdette, Clif ^c   Chirikjian, Gregory S ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^d  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c ACOUSTIC MEDSYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C arm; Fluoroscopy; Prostate brachytherapy; Reconstruction; Registration; Tracking

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FLUORESCENT SCREENS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PHANTOMS; ROBOTIC ARMS; SURFACE DISCHARGES; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

COMMERCIAL TRACKING; FLUOROSCOPY; MECHANICAL PHANTOMS; OBJECT RECONSTRUCTION; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; REGISTRATION; SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) INFORMATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; C ARM FLUOROSCOPY; CALCULATION; FLUOROSCOPE TRACKING; FLUOROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 27244448498     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2047782     Document Type: Article

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