Matching and reconstruction of brachytherapy seeds using the Hungarian algorithm (MARSHAL)

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5744, Issue II, 2005, Pages 810-821

  Jain, Ameet Kumar ^a   Zhou, Yu ^a   Mustufa, Tabish ^a   Burdette, E Clif ^b   Chirikjian, Gregory S ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOCUS Development Group   (United States)

Author keywords

C arm; Fluoroscopy; Prostate Brachytherapy; Radiation Planning; Reconstruction; Seed Matching

Indexed keywords

C-ARM; FLUOROSCOPY; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; RADIATION PLANNING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEED MATCHING;

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 23344442403     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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