Three-dimensional prostate position estimation with a single x-ray imager utilizing the spatial probability density

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4331-4353

  Poulsen, Per Rugaard ^a,b   Cho, Byungchul ^a   Langen, Katja ^c   Kupelian, Patrick ^c   Keall, Paul J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SENSORS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; TARGET TRACKING; TARGETS; TRACKING (POSITION); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY APPARATUS;

2D PROJECTIONS; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; DATA SETS; EXPECTATION VALUES; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; FIXED IMAGING; FOCUS POINTS; GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DENSITY; HIGH FREQUENCY IMAGING; IMAGING ANGLES; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; POSITION DETERMINATION; POSITION ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; PROJECTED MOTION; PROJECTION IMAGING; PROSTATE POSITIONS; RMS ERRORS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SIMULATION STUDIES; STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING; TARGET MOTIONS; TARGET POSITIONING; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); THREE DIRECTIONS; TWO DIMENSIONS; X-RAY IMAGER; X-RAY IMAGING; X-RAY SOURCES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSTATE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 51849109508     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/16/008     Document Type: Article

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