Three-dimensional seed reconstruction from an incomplete data set for prostate brachytherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3483-3494

  Narayanan, Sreeram ^a   Cho, Paul S ^a,b   Marks II, Robert J ^c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

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

^c Baylor University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRA-OPERATIVE DOSIMETRY; RADIOACTIVE SEEDS;

ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4444339727     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/15/012     Document Type: Article

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