On the question of 3D seed reconstruction in prostate brachytherapy: The determination of x-ray source and film locations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Zhang, Mutian ^a   Zaider, Marco ^b   Worman, Michael ^b   Cohen, Gilad ^b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; SEED; ULTRASONICS; X RAYS;

BRACHYTHERAPY (BT); PATIENT POSITIONING; SEED RECONSTRUCTION; ULTRASOUND PROBES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUOROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPLANTATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LITHOTOMY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DETECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY FILM;

EID: 5744246767     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/19/N03     Document Type: Article

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