Oblique needle segmentation for 3D TRUS-guided robot-aided transperineal prostate brachytherapy

2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 960-963

  Wei, Zhouping ^a,b   Gardi, Lori ^a   Downey, Donal B ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; ROBOTICS; TISSUE; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

AVERAGE ANGULATION ERROR; MOVER CONTROLLER MODULE (MCM); PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND (TRUS);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 17144392626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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