Robot-assisted 3D-TRUS guided prostate brachytherapy: System integration and validation

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 539-548

  Wei, Zhouping ^a,b   Wan, Gang ^a,b   Gardi, Lori ^a   Mills, Gregory ^a   Downey, Donal ^a,c   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b,c  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound guided surgery; Image guided surgery; Medical robotics; Prostate brachytherapy; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; ERRORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL ROBOTICS; NEEDLES; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; ROBOTS; SURGERY; TRAJECTORIES; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; UROLOGY;

3-D ULTRASOUND; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTATE CANCERS; TARGET REGISTRATION ERRORS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; ROBOTICS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 1642336202     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1645680     Document Type: Article

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