Markerless lung tumor tracking and trajectory reconstruction using rotational cone-beam projections: A feasibility study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2505-2522

  Lewis, John H ^a   Li, Ruijiang ^a   Watkins, W Tyler ^a   Lawson, Joshua D ^a   Segars, W Paul ^b   Cervĩo, Laura I ^a   Song, William Y ^a   Jiang, Steve B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ERROR; ACCURATE TRACKING; CONE-BEAM CT; CONE-BEAM PROJECTION; DIGITAL PHANTOMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; LUNG TUMOR; MARKERLESS; MAXIMUM ERROR; PATIENT SETUP; TRAJECTORY RECONSTRUCTION; TUMOR TRACKING; TUMOR TRAJECTORY; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; PATIENT MONITORING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRAJECTORIES; TUMORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; ROTATION; STANDARD; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; ROTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951170968     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/9/006     Document Type: Article

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