Tracking brachytherapy sources using emission imaging with one flat panel detector

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1109-1111

  Song, Haijun ^a   Bowsher, James ^a   Das, Shiva ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brachytherapy imaging; emission imaging; flat panel detector; Source tracking

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; EMISSION IMAGING; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; ILLUMINATION SOURCES; SOURCE TRACKING; STANDARD DEVIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SPACE;

X RAY DETECTORS;

IRIDIUM 192;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ILLUMINATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; X-RAYS;

EID: 63849179099     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3081402     Document Type: Article

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