Towards intra-operative dosimetry for prostate brachytherapy : improved seed detection and registration to ultrasound using needle detection
Errors in seed placement during low dose rate prostate brachytherapy can result in over-treating healthy tissue and/or under-treating cancer cells. In a standard treatment procedure, seeds are implanted according to a planned seed distribution. This pre-operative plan (pre-plan) is created using an...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43524 |