Automatic localization of implanted seeds from post-implant CT images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1191-1203

  Liu, Haisong ^a   Cheng, Gang ^a   Yu, Yan ^a   Brasacchio, Ralph ^a   Rubens, Deborah ^a   Strang, John ^a   Liao, Lydia ^a   Messing, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPLANT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037797110     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/9/308     Document Type: Article

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