Imamura, T., and Ikeda, M. (1973). British Journal ofIndustrial Medicine, 30, 289-292. Lower fiducial limit ofurinary metabolite level as an index ofexcessive exposure to industrial chemicals. Utilization ofthe lower fiducial limit (P = 0-10), rather than the mean, as an index ofexcessive exposure to industrial chemicals is discussed. Cases of exposure to trichloroethylene, phenol, and toluene ...

In this paper, we propose a hybrid similarity measure for 2D-3D image registration that is a weighted combination of an intensitybased image similarity measure and a point-based measure incorporating a single fiducial marker. We evaluate its accuracy and robustness using gold-standard clinical spine image data. The use of one fiducial marker substantially improves registration accuracy and robu...

We propose and test analytic equations for approximating expected fiducial and surface target registration error (TRE). The equations are derived from a spatial stiffness model of registration. The fiducial TRE equation is equivalent to one presented by. We believe that the surface TRE equation is novel, and we provide evidence from computer simulations to support the accuracy of the approximat...

A procedure is derived for determining the values of the parameters of a multinomial distribution by means of the fiducial approach proposed by Fisher. By decomposing the involved probability (mass or density) functions, it is shown that the resulting fiducial distributions belong to the Dirichlet family.

The rigid registration is a key step of Image Guided Surgery (IGS), and the point-pair method is the main way used for registration. However the configuration of fiducial points has a great influence on the registration accuracy at the target point. Now almost all the optimization method of fiducial points configuration relies on the empirical simulation-based Fitzpatrick's target registration ...

Image-guidance systems based on fiducial registration typically display some measure of registration accuracy based on the goodness of fit of the fiducials. A common measure is fiducial registration error (FRE), which equals the root-meansquare error in fiducial alignment between image space and physical space. It is natural for the surgeon to regard the displayed estimate of error as an indica...

A method for the first-order analysis of the point registration problem is presented and validated. The method is a unified approach to the problem that allows for inhomogeneous and anisotropic fiducial localization error (FLE) and arbitrary weighting in the registration algorithm. Cross-covariance matrices are derived both for target registration error (TRE) and for weighted fiducial registrat...

OBJECTIVE Purpose of this work was to study the dose perturbation within the target volume of a external MV radiation therapy when using metal fiducials. METHODS We developed a Monte Carlo simulation in Geant4 of a cylindrical fiducial made either of gold or of steel and simulated the photon irradiation beam originating from a medical Linac operating at 6, 10 or 15 MV. For each energy, two di...

This paper describes the a posteriori estimation of the error in the flux of a finite element approximation on a piece of the boundary of the domain. The estimate is obtained via a generalized Green’s function corresponding to the quantity of interest on the boundary. We investigate the effects of smoothing the data corresponding to the quantity of interest and explore the effective domain of d...