Ron Alterovitz

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Simulating needle insertion and radioactive seed implantation for prostate brachytherapy
    Ron Alterovitz
    IEOR Department, UC Berkeley, USA
    Stud Health Technol Inform 94:19-25. 2003
  2. ncbi Registration of MR prostate images with biomechanical modeling and nonlinear parameter estimation
    Ron Alterovitz
    Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, 4141 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, California 94720 1777, USA
    Med Phys 33:446-54. 2006
  3. ncbi Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear programming with penalty costs
    Ron Alterovitz
    Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, 4141 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, California 94720 1777, USA
    Med Phys 33:4012-9. 2006

Detail Information

Publications3

  1. ncbi Simulating needle insertion and radioactive seed implantation for prostate brachytherapy
    Ron Alterovitz
    IEOR Department, UC Berkeley, USA
    Stud Health Technol Inform 94:19-25. 2003
    ..The locations of seed implants are predicted as the tissue deforms. The simulation, which achieves 24 frames per second using a 1250 triangular element mesh on a 750Mhz Pentium III PC, is available for surgeon testing by contacting ...
  2. ncbi Registration of MR prostate images with biomechanical modeling and nonlinear parameter estimation
    Ron Alterovitz
    Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, 4141 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, California 94720 1777, USA
    Med Phys 33:446-54. 2006
    ..5% for the balloon probe cases and 98.1% for the rigid probe cases. The method improves significantly over previous methods (P < 0.05) with greater improvement for balloon probe cases with larger tissue deformations...
  3. ncbi Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear programming with penalty costs
    Ron Alterovitz
    Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, 4141 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, California 94720 1777, USA
    Med Phys 33:4012-9. 2006
    ..01). The results indicate that solutions generated by the current version of IPSA are clinically equivalent to the mathematically optimal solutions...