Fast cross-projection algorithm for reconstruction of seeds in prostate brachytherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1572-1579

  Narayanan, Sreeram ^a   Cho, Paul S ^a   Marks II, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraoperative dosimetry; Prostate brachytherapy; Seed reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; DOSIMETRY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; INTRAOPERATIVE DOSIMETRY; MATCHING TESTS; NUMBER OF VIEWS; PROJECTION ALGORITHMS; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTRATE BRACHYTHERAPY; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE;

ONCOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0035996457     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1489044     Document Type: Article

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