Section-thickness profiling for brachytherapy ultrasound guidance

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7964, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Peikari, Mohammad ^a   Chen, Thomas Kuiran ^a   Burdette, Everette C ^b   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ACOUSTIC MEDSYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamwidth; Brachytherapy; Section thickness; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; ACOUSTIC BEAMS; BEAM PROFILING; BEAM WIDTHS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BRACHYTHERAPY; CAD SOFTWARES; COMPUTER ASSISTED; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR; SECTION-THICKNESS; SPEED OF SOUNDS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND GUIDANCE; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VISUALIZATION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 79955851868     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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