Prostate brachytherapy seed reconstruction using an adaptive grouping technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2975-2984

  Su, Yi ^a   Davis, Brian J ^b   Furutani, Keith M ^b   Herman, Michael G ^b   Robb, Richard A ^a  

^a MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Fluoroscopy; Seed localization

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; GEOMETRY; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOMS; RECOVERY; UROLOGY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FLUOROSCOPY; INTRAOPERATIVE DOSIMETRY; PROJECTION GEOMETRY; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; SEED LOCALIZATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADAPTIVE GROUPING TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; ALGORITHM; IMAGING PHANTOM; PLANT SEED; PROSTATE TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEEDS;

EID: 34347382372     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2745936     Document Type: Article

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