Effects of ultrasound section-thickness on brachytherapy needle tip localization error

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6891 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 299-306

  Peikari, Mohammad ^a   Chen, Thomas Kuiran ^a   Lasso, Andras ^a   Heffter, Tamas ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LOCATIONS; BEAM PROFILES; BEAM WIDTHS; BRACHYTHERAPY; DIRECT IMPACT; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; IMAGE PLANE; IMAGING ARTIFACTS; IMAGING PARAMETERS; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; MULTIPLE NEEDLES; NEEDLE INSERTION; OUT-OF-PLANE; POSITION ERRORS; SIDE LOBES;

ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEEDLES; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE; RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEDICAL ERRORS; NEEDLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 82255185859     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23623-5_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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