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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Main Author: Lobo, Julio
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43524

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