Visibility and artifacts of gold fiducial markers used for image guided radiation therapy of pancreatic cancer on MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2638-2647

  Gurney Champion, Oliver J ^a   Lens, Eelco ^a   Van Der Horst, Astrid ^a   Houweling, Antonetta C ^a   Klaassen, Remy ^a   Van Hooft, Jeanin E ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^a   Van Tienhoven, Geertjan ^a   Nederveen, Aart J ^a   Bel, Arjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

fiducial markers; image artifacts; image guided radiation therapy; MRI; pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; GOLD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETISM; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS; VISIBILITY;

FIDUCIAL MARKER; IMAGE ARTEFACTS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGING SEQUENCE; IN-VIVO; PANCREATIC CANCERS; PHANTOMS; SEQUENCE PARAMETERS; SIGNAL SHIFT; TUMOR DELINEATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IRON; GOLD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CASE REPORT; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; GOLD ANCHOR FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PANCREAS; PANCREAS CANCER; PHANTOM; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOLOGIST; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL SHIFT; SIGNAL VOID; DEVICES; IMAGE QUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; GOLD; HUMANS; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED;

EID: 84930011293     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4918753     Document Type: Article

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