Algorithm and simulation for real-time positron emission based tumor tracking using a linear fiducial marker

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1576-1586

  Churchill, Nathan W ^a,b   Chamberland, Marc ^a   Xu, Tong ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image guided radiation therapy; Real time tumor tracking

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; GAMMA RAYS; POSITRONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS; MULTIPLE POINT SOURCES; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; REAL-TIME LOCALIZATION; REAL-TIME TUMOR TRACKING; SOURCE LOCALIZATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DISEASE MARKER; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RADIATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 65549127108     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3103400     Document Type: Article

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