Using cone-beam CT projection images to estimate the average and complete trajectory of a fiducial marker moving with respiration

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 7439-7452

  Becker, N ^a,b   Smith, W L ^a,b   Quirk, S ^a,b   Kay, I ^c,d  

^a TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Cape Breton Regional Hospital   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING PATTERNS; CONEBEAM CT; DATA SETS; FIDUCIAL MARKER; GOLD SEEDS; INTERNAL MOTION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MAXIMUM ERROR; MOTION INFORMATION; PATIENT SETUP; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PHANTOM STUDIES; PROJECTION DATA; PROJECTION IMAGE; RESPIRATORY CYCLE; RESPIRATORY PATTERN; RMS ERRORS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY; SUBMILLIMETERS; TRAJECTORY RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT UNITS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRAJECTORIES; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION;

EID: 78650072644     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/24/004     Document Type: Article

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