Fiducial markers in prostate for kV imaging: Quantification of visibility and optimization of imaging conditions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 155-172

  Chen, Yu ^a,b   J Oconnell, John ^b   Ko, Christine J ^b   Mayer, Rulon R ^a,b   Belard, Arnaud ^a,b   McDonough, James E ^c  

^a HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR DIRECTIONS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING; FIDUCIAL MARKER; GOLD SEEDS; IMAGING CONDITIONS; OPTIMAL RANGES; PARAMETERIZED; PATIENT REPOSITIONING; PELVIC PHANTOMS; PROTON DOSE; PROTON THERAPY; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SKIN EXPOSURE; TARGET LOCALIZATION; X-RAY TECHNIQUES; XRAY IMAGING;

GOLD; OPTIMIZATION; PROTONS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

VISIBILITY;

CARBON; GOLD; PROTON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STANDARD; UNCERTAINTY;

CARBON; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; GOLD; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 83455211805     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/1/155     Document Type: Article

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