Evaluation of a prototype 3D ultrasound system for multimodality imaging of cervical nodes for adaptive radiation therapy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6509, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Fraser, Danielle ^a   Fava, Palma ^b   Cury, Fabio ^b   Vuong, Te ^b   Falco, Tony ^c   Verhaegen, Frank ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Resonant Medical   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D; Image guidance; Localization; Multimodality; Radiation therapy; Registration; Segmentation; Ultrasound; Visualization

Indexed keywords

IMAGE-GUIDANCE; MULTIMODALITY; SONOGRAPHIC TOPOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 35148895844     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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