Towards ultrasound-based intraoperative dosimetry for prostate brachytherapy

Prostate brachytherapy is a widely used treatment of localized prostate cancer. Intra-operative dose feedback would bring many benefits to patients and healthcare practitioners. Detection of brachytherapy seeds and segmentation of prostate boundaries play key roles in dosimetry for prostate brachyth...

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Main Author: Wen, Xu
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26640