Source localization from axial image sets by iterative relaxation of the nearest neighbor criterion

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1919-1924

  Bice, William S ^a,c   Dubois, Donald F ^a   Prete, James J ^a,c   Prestidge, Bradley R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Texas Prostate Brachytherapy Services   (United States)

^c Radiological Physics Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; CT; Localization; MRI; Prostate; Radioactive sources; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LOCATION; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOMS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; ULTRASONICS; UROLOGY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CT; DATA SET; IMAGES SETS; LOCALISATION; NEAREST-NEIGHBOUR; PROSTATE; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; SOURCE LOCALIZATION; SOURCES LOCATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0344995249     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598717     Document Type: Article

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