Dynamic brachytherapy of the prostate under active image guidance

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

Volumn 2208, Issue , 2001, Pages 351-359

  Cheng, Gang ^a   Liu, Haisong ^a   Liao, Lydia ^a   Yu, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; UROLOGY;

AUTO SEGMENTATION; INTERACTIVE PLANNING; OPTIMIZED PLANNING; PROSTATE ANATOMY; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTATE CANCERS; REAL-TIME DYNAMICS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84958159503     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45468-3_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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