An assessment of a low-cost visual tracking system (VTS) to detect and compensate for patient motion during SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 992-998

  McNamara, Joseph E ^a,b   Bruyant, Philippe ^c   Johnson, Karen ^b   Feng, Bing ^a,b   Lehovich, Andre ^a,b   Gu, Songxiang ^d   Gennert, Michael A ^d   King, Michael A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^d WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion correction; Optical imaging; SPECT; Stereo imaging

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES; HEALTH; MATLAB; MOTION ESTIMATION; NAVIGATION; PLASTIC BOTTLES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CALIBRATION PATTERNS; CAMERA STABILITY; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC PARAMETERS; MOTION TRACKING; OPTICAL CAMERA; PATIENT MOTIONS; TEMPORAL SYNCHRONIZATION; VISUAL TRACKING SYSTEM (VTS);

SYSTEM STABILITY;

ACCURACY; BOTTLES; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HEALTH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PLASTIC CONTAINERS;

EID: 45849143718     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.915688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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