Real-time dosimetry for prostate brachytherapy using TRUS and fluoroscopy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3217, Issue 1 PART 2, 2004, Pages 983-991

  French, Danny ^a   Morris, James ^b   Keyes, Mira ^b   Salcudean, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROSTHETICS; ULTRASONICS; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

FLUOROSCOPY; INTEROPERATIVE SEED MOTION; REAL-TIME DOSIMETRY (RTD); TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND (TRUS); CLINICAL DATA; FLUOROSCOPIC IMAGES; FRONTAL PLANES; INTRA-OPERATIVE; NEW APPROACHES; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; REAL-TIME DOSIMETRY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND;

DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 20344395119     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30136-3_119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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