A rapid searching calculation of radiation dose distribution based on the region growing algorithm in 3D for CT-robot gamma knife.
- Author:
Hao LUO
1
;
Ji-Feng GUO
;
Han LIU
Author Information
1. College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Algorithms;
Radiometry;
methods;
Radiotherapy Dosage;
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted;
methods;
Robotics;
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Instrumentation
2005;29(3):161-163
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
This paper presents a rapid searching algorithm for dose calculation based on the region growing algorithm. Using this algorithm, we can automatically and rapidly search out the dose computational region for the gamma knife, so as to reduce the computational time, and space complexity.