Implications of artefacts reduction in the planning CT originating from implanted fiducial markers

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119-125

  Kassim, Iskandar ^a   Joosten, Hans ^a   Barnhoorn, Jaco C ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a   Dirkx, Maarten L P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fiducial markers; Metal artefact reduction; Planning CT; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER CANCER; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RELIABILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955472289     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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