Fast, accurate, and robust automatic marker detection for motion correction based on oblique kV or MV projection image pairs

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1554-1564

  Slagmolen, Pieter ^a,b   Hermans, Jeroen ^a,b   Maes, Frederik ^a,b   Budiharto, Tom ^b   Haustermans, Karin ^b   Van Den Heuvel, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automatic marker detection; Dynamic programming; Fiducial markers; Intrafraction motion; Prostate

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST FUNCTIONS; DISEASES; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION ANALYSIS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; UROLOGY;

FIDUCIAL MARKER; FILTERED PROJECTIONS; INTRAFRACTION MOTION; MARKER DETECTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PATIENT REPOSITIONING; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; PROSTATE;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 77950558513     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3355871     Document Type: Article

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