3D voxel fusion of multi-modality medical images in a clinical treatment planning system

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

Volumn 17, Issue , 2004, Pages 48-53

  Xie, Huchen ^a   Li, Guang ^a   Ning, Holly ^a   Ménard, Cynthia ^a   Colemah, C Norman ^a   Miller, Robert W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC STRUCTURES; CLINICAL TREATMENT; IMAGE FUSION; SYSTEMATIC POSITIONING ERROR;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM ERRORS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 4544301949     PISSN: 10637125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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