CT-Based software for 3-D localization and reconstruction in stepping source Brachytherapy

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 229-242

  Tsalpatouros, Alex ^a,b,c   Baltas, Dimos ^a,b,c   Kolotas, Christos ^a,c   Van Der Laarse, R ^a,b   Koutsouris, Dimitris ^a,c,d   Uzunoglu, Nikolaos K ^a,c,d   Zamboglou, Nikolaos ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Offenbach GmbH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Nucletron BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031282827     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.681165     Document Type: Article

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