Intra-operative 3D guidance in prostate brachytherapy using a non-isocentric C-arm

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

Volumn 4792 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 9-17

  Jain, A ^a,c   Deguet, A ^a   Iordachita, I ^a   Chintalapani, G ^a   Blevins, J ^b   Le, Y ^a   Armour, E ^a   Burdette, C ^b   Song, D ^a   Fichtinger, G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ACOUSTIC MEDSYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOACTIVITY;

BRACHYTHERAPY SYSTEM; RADIOACTIVE SEEDS; SEED RECONSTRUCTION; SOFT TISSUE PHANTOMS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84883841755     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75759-7_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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