Digital phantoms for the evaluation of a software used for an automatic analysis of the Winston-Lutz test in image guided radiation therapy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6913, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Torfeh, Tarraf ^a,b   Beaumont, Stéphane ^b   Bonnet, David ^b   Barbotteau, Yves ^c   Guédon, JeanPierre ^a   Normand, Nicolas ^a   Denis, Eloïse ^a,b   Fenoglietto, Pascal ^c   Ailleres, Norbert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b QualiFormeD SARL   (France)

^c Anticancer Center   (France)

Author keywords

CT; METR; PHT; SIM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIGITAL TEST OBJECTS (DTO); STEREOTACTIC RADIO SURGERY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 43149123374     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.768668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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