Tracking moving objects with megavoltage portal imaging: A feasibility study

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1275-1280

  Meyer, Juergen ^a   Richter, Anne ^a   Baier, Kurt ^a   Wilbert, Juergen ^a   Guckenberger, Matthias ^a   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Megavoltage (MV) portal imaging; Mutual information; Similarity measures; The mean of the sum of squared differences (MSSD); Tumor tracking

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PIXELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS;

MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; PORTAL IMAGING; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SUM OF SQUARED DIFFERENCES; TUMOR TRACKING;

OBJECT TRACKING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

EID: 33646454283     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2191009     Document Type: Article

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