Automatic post-implant needle reconstruction algorithm to characterize and improve implant robustness analyses

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2897-2903

  Archambault, Louis ^a,b   Beaulieua, Luc ^a,b   Tubic, Dragan ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Needle reconstruction; Post implant; Prostate brachytherapy; Seed migration; Seed misplacement

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; UROLOGY;

AUTOMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; IMPLANT BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; REALISTIC SIMULATION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; TREATMENT QUALITY;

NEEDLES;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY; IMPLANTATION; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0344393793     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1617480     Document Type: Article

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