An Analytic Method to Predict the Thermal Map of Cryosurgery Iceballs in MR Images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 122-129

  Fournial, Romain ^a,b   Traoré, Amidou S ^a,b   Laurendeau, Denis ^b   Moisan, Christian ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cryotherapy; Intraoperative MRI; MR guided therapy; Temperature mapping

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CRYOGENICS; CRYOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURGERY; TISSUE;

TEMPERATURE MAPPING; THERMOSENSORS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ICE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CRYOSURGERY; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; THERMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CRYOSURGERY; ICE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0347337799     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.819919     Document Type: Article

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