. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 8.

Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2009 Jul 14;28(12):1955–1968. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2026412

TABLE IV.

Clinical experiment results. Number of matched seeds are counted by visual assessment and the reconstruction differences are computed by comparing the estimated seed locations computed by the proposed algorithm with those computed by the marshal algorithm.

Patient number	Number of seeds			Mean ± STD difference (mm)
Patient number	implanted	candidate	matched	Mean ± STD difference (mm)
1	22	22	21 (95.5%)	0.6 ± 0.2
	44	46	43 (97.7%)	0.7 ± 0.5
	66	75	66 (100%)	0.7 ± 0.6
2	39	39	39 (100%)	0.6 ± 0.4
	82	84	82 (100%)	0.6 ± 0.6
	84	85	83 (98.8%)	1.0 ± 0.8
3	33	33	33 (100%)	0.4 ± 0.3
	67	67	65 (97.0%)	0.9 ± 0.8
	70	68	68 (97.1%)	1.2 ± 1.4
4	35	35	35 (100%)	0.4 ± 0.3
	68	70	68 (100%)	0.6 ± 0.6
	77	82	76 (98.7%)	1.4 ± 0.8
5	24	24	24 (100%)	0.8 ± 1.2
	48	50	46 (95.8%)	1.1 ± 1.2
	53	56	52 (98.1%)	1.4 ± 1.4
6	33	33	33 (100%)	0.7 ± 0.6
	61	63	61 (100%)	0.6 ± 0.3
	66	70	66 (100%)	0.8 ± 0.6