Catheter autoreconstruction in computed tomography based brachytherapy treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1047-1057

  Milickovic, N ^a,b   Giannouli, S ^a,b   Baltas, D ^a,b   Lahanas, M ^a   Kolotas, C ^a,b   Zamboglou, N ^a,b   Uzunoglu, N ^b  

^a Klinikum Offenbach GmbH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Catheter reconstruction; Image based brachytherapy; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

AUTOMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETER RECONSTRUCTION; CT (COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY); SLICE METHOD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0034082283     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598995     Document Type: Article

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