3-T MR-guided brachytherapy for gynecologic malignancies

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1279-1290

  Kapur, Tina ^a   Egger, Jan ^a   Damato, Antonio ^a   Schmidt, Ehud J ^a   Viswanathan, Akila N ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Brachytherapy; MR susceptibility artifact; Registration; Segmentation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

3 T MAGNETIC RESONANCE BRACHYTHERAPY; ADVANCED MULTIMODALITY IMAGE GUIDED OPERATING SUITE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867138941     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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