An automatic seed finder for brachytherapy CT postplans based on the Hough transform

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2672-2679

  Holupka, Edward J ^a   Meskell, P M ^a   Burdette, E C ^b   Kaplan, I D ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Corporate Park Centre ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; CT postplanning; Hough transform; Prostate cancer; Radioactive seed implantation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOACTIVITY; UROLOGY;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; DIMENSIONAL POSITION; METHODS AND MATERIALS; PROSTATE CANCERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE TOOLS; SEED IMPLANTATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMPLANT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 4644359661     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1778837     Document Type: Article

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