State of the art in computer-assisted planning, intervention, and assessment of liver-tumor ablation

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-52

  Schumann, Christian ^a   Rieder, Christian ^a   Bieberstein, Jennifer ^a   Weihusen, Andreas ^a   Zidowitz, Stephan ^a   Moltz, Jan Hendrik ^a   Preusser, Tobias ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Access path determination; Image guidance; Interventional support; Radiofrequency ablation; Simulation; Therapy assessment; Therapy planning; Tumor segmentation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TUMORS; VISUALIZATION;

ACCESS PATH DETERMINATION; IMAGE GUIDANCES; INTERVENTIONAL; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION; SIMULATION; THERAPY ASSESSMENT; THERAPY PLANNING; TUMOR SEGMENTATION;

ABLATION;

CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIVER TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 78650128786     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v38.i1.40     Document Type: Review

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