Technical note: Unsupervised C-arm pose tracking with radiographic fiducial

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2241-2245

  Fallavollita, P ^a   Burdette, E C ^b   Song, D Y ^c   Abolmaesumi, P ^d   Fichtinger, G ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ACOUSTIC MEDSYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

2D 3D registration; fiducial; fluoroscopy; prostate brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROBOTIC ARMS; UROLOGY;

2D/3D REGISTRATION; C-ARM POSE TRACKING; FIDUCIAL; FLUOROSCOPY; FLUOROSCOPY IMAGES; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS; UNSUPERVISED METHOD;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 79953660447     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3566015     Document Type: Article

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