Three-dimensional seed reconstruction for prostate brachytherapy using Hough trajectories

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 557-569

  Lam, Steve T ^a   Cho, Paul S ^a,b   Marks II, Robert J ^c   Narayanan, Sreeram ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Baylor University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; X RAYS;

FLUOROSCOPY; PARAMETRIC EQUATIONS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; FILM; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHANTOM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOACTIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROSTATE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1342309599     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/4/007     Document Type: Article

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