Automating the segmentation of medical images for the production of voxel tomographic computational models.

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 185-190

  Caon, Martin ^a   Mohyla, J ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Medical image bitmap; Radiation dosimetry; Segmentation; Voxel model

Indexed keywords

BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DOSIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; AUTOMATION; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; TIME;

EID: 0035716294     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178363     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. 1990 recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, publication 60
2. Estimates of absorbed fractions for monoenergetic photon sources uniformly distributed in various organs of a heterogeneous phantom, Medical Internal Radiation Dose Committee (MIRD) Pamphlet No. 5
3. The construction of computer tomographic phantoms and their application in radiology and radiation protection
4. Voxel based Monte Carlo calculations of nuclear medicine images and applied variance reduction techniques
5. The adult male voxel model "Golem" segmented from whole-body CT patient data
6. Construction of a computed tomographic phantom for a Japanese male adult and dose calculation system
7. An EGS4-ready tomographic computational model of a fourteen year-old female torso for calculating organ doses from CT examinations
8. VIP-MAN: An image based whole-body adult male model constructed from color photographs of the Visible Human Project for multi-particle Monte Carlo calculations
9. A realistic anthropomorphic phantom for calculating organ doses arising from external photon irradiation
10. FDTD calculations of the whole-body averaged SAR in an anatomically realistic voxel model of the human body from 1 MHz to 1 GHz
11. Evaluation of a region growing algorithm for segmenting pelvic computed tomography images during radiotherapy planning
12. An EGS4 User Code with Voxel Geometry and a Voxel Phantom Generating System