Robotic assistance for ultrasound-guided prostate brachytherapy

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 535-545

  Fichtinger, Gabor ^a,b   Fiene, Jonathan P ^c   Kennedy, Christopher W ^b   Kronreif, Gernot ^d   Iordachita, Iulian ^b   Song, Danny Y ^b   Burdette, Everette C ^e   Kazanzides, Peter ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d PROFACTOR GMBH   (Austria)

^e ACOUSTIC MEDSYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Image guided surgery; Medical robotics; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ERRORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEEDLES; ROBOTICS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFICACY; CLINICAL FEASIBILITY; CLINICAL TRIALS; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEMS; FULLY INTEGRATED; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; MEDICAL ROBOTICS; OPTICAL-; PARALLEL ROBOTS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENTS; POLARIS; POSITIONING ERRORS; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTATE CANCER; ROTATIONAL ERRORS; SALIENT FEATURES; TEST RESULTS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; PHANTOM; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; ROBOTICS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROBOTICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 48749092013     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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