Clinical implementation of a digital tomosynthesis-based seed reconstruction algorithm for intraoperative postimplant dose evaluation in low dose rate prostate brachytherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5235-5244

  Brunet Benkhoucha, Malik ^a,b   Verhaegen, Frank ^a,c   Lassalle, St́phanie ^b   B́liveau Nadeau, Dominic ^b   Reniers, Brigitte ^a,c   Donath, David ^b   Taussky, Daniel ^b   Carrier, Jean Fraņois ^b,d  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Centre Hospitalier de l'Universit de Mont al (CHUM)   (Canada)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital tomosynthesis; Low dose rate brachytherapy; Postimplant dosimetry; Seed reconstruction

Indexed keywords

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); ONCOLOGY; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY; UROLOGY;

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; LOW DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; POSTIMPLANT DOSIMETRY; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SEED LOCALIZATION;

DOSIMETRY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 70350719676     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3245888     Document Type: Article

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