Automatic marker detection and 3D position reconstruction using cine EPID images for SBRT verification

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4536-4546

  Park, Sang June ^a   Ionascu, Dan ^a,b   Hacker, Fred ^a   Mamon, Harvey ^a   Berbeco, Ross ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

3D position reconstruction; Automatic marker detection; Cine EPID; SBRT verification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LOCATION; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

3D POSITIONS; CINE EPID; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; MARKER DETECTIONS; REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 70349661890     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3218845     Document Type: Article

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