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Abstract #1593

Phase-Encoded Resonant Marker Identification and Tracking

Marc Rea1, Donald McRobbie1, Francesca Galassi2, Djordje Brujic2, Mihailo Ristic2, Ian Young2

1Radiological Sciences Unit, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; 2Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

A real-time imaging scheme employing fiducial phase encoding has been demonstrated to provide a means of uniquely identifying markers even in close proximity. Using this method, the required number of projections for 3D tracking was reduced to three.

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