Optimizing fiducial visibility on periodically acquired megavoltage and kilovoltage image pairs during prostate volumetric modulated arc therapy
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Development and clinical evaluation of automatic fiducial detection for tumor tracking in cine megavoltage images during volumetric modulated arc therapy.
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Physics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0094-2405
DOI: 10.1118/1.4944737