Magnetic resonance imaging for improved treatment planning of the prostate

Magnetic resonance imaging for improved treatment planning of the prostate

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Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy afflicting Canadian men in 2011. Physicians use digital rectal exams (DRE), blood tests for prostate specific antigen (PSA) and transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided biopsies for the initial diagnosis of prostate cancer. None of these tests detail the spa...

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Main Author: Venugopal, Niranjan
Other Authors: McCurdy, Boyd (Physics and Astronomy) Ryner, Lawrence (Physics and Astronomy)
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Short echo times
conformal voxel
MRSI
LCmodel
MRI
prostate-cancer
lipid-contamination
lipid-suppression
NTCP
TCP
histopathology
spectroscopy
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/5071

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http://hdl.handle.net/1993/5071

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