Performance evaluation of real-time motion tracking using positron emission fiducial markers

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 810-819

  Chamberland, Marc ^a   Wassenaar, Richard ^b   Spencer, Benjamin ^a   Xu, Tong ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

positron emission markers; radiation therapy; real time tracking; respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; GAMMA RAYS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL SENSORS; POSITRONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TUMORS;

EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; NORMALIZED LEAST MEAN SQUARE; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION; REAL TIME TRACKING; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) MOTION;

MOTION TRACKING;

EID: 79551672187     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3537206     Document Type: Article

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