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Abstract | ||
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A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pulse sequence and a corresponding image processing algorithm to localize prostate brachytherapy seeds during or after therapy are presented. Inversion-Recovery with ON-resonant water suppression (IRON) is an MRI methodology that generates positive contrast in regions of magnetic field susceptibility, as created by prostate brachytherapy seeds. Phantoms comprising of several materials found in brachytherapy seeds were created to assess the usability of the IRON pulse sequence for imaging seeds. Resulting images show that seed materials are clearly visible with high contrast using IRON, agreeing with theoretical predictions. A seed localization algorithm to process IRON images demonstrates the potential of this imaging technique for seed localization and dosimetry. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2010 | 10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490259 | ISBI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
imaging technique,prostate brachytherapy seed,brachytherapy seed,mri-based prostate brachytherapy seed,seed localization,prostate brachy-therapy seed,imaging seed,iron image,magnetic resonance imaging,seed localization algorithm,iron pulse sequence,iron,palladium,bioinformatics,biomedical research,magnetic susceptibility,magnetic resonance image,magnetic fields,image processing,magnetic materials,blob detection,phantom,optical imaging,materials,magnetic field | Computer science,Pulse sequence,Imaging phantom,Dosimetry,Image processing,Brachytherapy,Medical treatment,Nuclear magnetic resonance,Prostate brachytherapy,Magnetic resonance imaging | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | ISBN |
2010 | 1945-7928 | 978-1-4244-4126-6 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.36 | 1 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathanael Kuo | 1 | 11 | 2.80 |
| Junghoon Lee | 2 | 38 | 7.21 |
| Clare Tempany | 3 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Matthias Stuber | 4 | 19 | 4.09 |
| Jerry Prince | 5 | 32 | 3.26 |