Automated treatment planning for prostate cancer HIFU therapy

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1135-1138

  Fedewa, Russell J ^a   Seip, Ralf ^a   Carlson, Roy F ^a   Chen, Wohsing ^a   Sanghvi, Narendra T ^a   Penna, Michael A ^b   Dines, Kris A ^c   Pfile, Richard E ^d  

^a Focus Surgery Incorporated   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c XDATA Corporation   (United States)

^d CoEval Systems LLC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

3D models; HIFU; Image guided; Prostate cancer; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; HIFU THERAPY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (HIFU) TREATMENTS; LESION LIBRARY FILE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 33846326594     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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