Automated seed detection and three-dimensional reconstruction. I. Seed localization from fluoroscopic images or radiographs

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2265-2271

  Tubic, Dragan ^a,b   Zaccarin, André ^c   Pouliot, Jean ^d   Beaulieu, Luc ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); RADIOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATED PROCEDURES; AUTOMATIC THRESHOLD SELECTION; BACKGROUND REMOVAL; CATHETER DETECTIONS; CONNECTED COMPONENT; EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; FLUOROSCOPIC IMAGES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPLANT; MALE; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOACTIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

EID: 0035183852     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1414308     Document Type: Article

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