Seed-based ultrasound and fluoroscopy registration using iterative optimal assignment for intraoperative prostate brachytherapy dosimetry

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6509, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Tutar, Ismail B ^a   Narayanan, Sreeram ^b   Lenz, Hila ^c   Nurani, Rizwan ^b   Orio, Peter ^b   Cho, Paul S ^b   Wallner, Kent ^b,c   Kim, Yongmin ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraoperative dosimetry; Prostate brachytherapy; TRUS fluoroscopy registration

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS; SEED; VISUALIZATION;

FLUOROSCOPY REGISTRATION; INTRAOPERATIVE DOSIMETRY; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 34547848539     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.712296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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