Automatic Reconstruction of Catheters in CT Based Bracytherapy Treatment Planning

Abstract

The aim of this study was to develop an automatic reconstruction of bracnhytherapy catheters using CT data, Previously no such automatic facility has existed in any treatment planning software, To achieve this aim we have developed algorithms for the automatic reconstruction (which we term autoreconstruction) of plastic and nietallic catheters, Our algorithuls overcome a nuniber of difficulties which arrise when a large number of catheters are present. These include situations with intersecting catheters and with loop techniques.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2001
Accession Number
ADA409987

Entities

People

  • Dimos Baltasw
  • Natasa B. Milickovic
  • Nikolaos Zamboglu

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Automatic
  • Catheters
  • Diameters
  • Errors
  • Geometric Forms
  • Geometry
  • Image Processing
  • Lines (Geometry)
  • Materials
  • Radiotherapy
  • Thickness
  • Three Dimensional
  • X-Ray Computed Tomography

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Physics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Medical Imaging.