Online gamma-camera imaging of 103Pd seeds (OGIPS) for permanent breast seed implantation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 5921-5932

  Ravi, Ananth ^a   Caldwell, Curtis B ^a,b   Keller, Brian M ^b   Reznik, Alla ^a   Pignol, Jean Philippe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CAMERAS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); ONCOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TUMORS;

HEXAGONAL PARALLEL HOLE COLLIMATORS; ONLINE GAMMA CAMERA IMAGING; PERMANENT BREAST SEED IMPLANTATION; REAL-TIME CORRECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

PALLADIUM 103;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PALLADIUM; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34748829816     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/19/013     Document Type: Article

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