An automated intensity-weighted brachytherapy seed localization algorithm

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 818-827

  Whitehead, Gregory ^a   Chang, Zheng ^b,c   Ji, Jim ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Harrington Cancer Center   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Computer tomography; Radioactive seed implantation; Seed detection; Seed localization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY SEED LOCALIZATION; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; SEED IMPLANTATION; SEED LOCALIZATION; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;

ONCOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 40049112445     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2836418     Document Type: Article

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