Prostate brachytherapy seed reconstruction with Gaussian blurring and optimal coverage cost

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1955-1968

  Lee, Junghoon ^a   Liu, Xiaofeng ^a   Jain, Ameet K ^b   Song, Danny Y ^c   Burdette, Everette C ^d   Prince, Jerry L ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a,e  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ACOUSTIC MEDSYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; C arm auto focusing; Gaussian blurring; Optimal coverage cost; Prostate cancer; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; ROBOTIC ARMS; TOMOGRAPHY; UROLOGY;

AUTO-FOCUSING; BRACHYTHERAPY; GAUSSIANS; OPTIMAL COVERAGE; PROSTATE CANCERS; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPLANTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 72249105756     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2026412     Document Type: Article

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