Robust automatic segmentation of multiple implanted cylindrical gold fiducial markers in cone-beam CT projections

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6351-6361

  Fledelius, Walther ^a   Worm, Esben ^a   Elstrøm, Ulrik V ^a   Petersen, Jørgen B ^a   Grau, Cai ^a   Høyer, Morten ^a   Poulsen, Per R ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

image guided radiotherapy; marker segmentation; organ motion

Indexed keywords

GOLD; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; UROLOGY;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTELLATION MODEL; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTRAFRACTION MOTION; ORGAN MOTION; POSITION AND ORIENTATIONS; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 82755181884     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3658566     Document Type: Article

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