Stereotactic radiosurgery planning with ictal SPECT images

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 136-147

  Ackerly, Trevor ^a,b   Geso, M ^b   O'Keefe, G ^c   Smith, R ^d  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^d Alfred Group of Hospitals   (Australia)

Author keywords

DICOM; SPECT; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SURGERY;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TARGET LOCALIZATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 8744307158     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178673     Document Type: Article

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