Real-time collaborative environment for radiation treatment planning virtual simulation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 12 II, 2002, Pages 1444-1451

  Ntasis, Efthymios ^a   Maniatis, Theofanis A ^a   Nikita, Konstantina S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Collaborative work; Radiation treatment planning; Virtual simulation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION; LATENT PERIOD; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION FIELD; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REMOTE CONSULTATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0036940589     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.805450     Document Type: Article

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