Photoacoustic imaging of prostate brachytherapy seeds in Ex vivo prostate

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7964, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kuo, Nathanael ^a   Kang, Hyun Jae ^b   Dejournett, Travis ^b   Spicer, James ^b   Boctor, Emad ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Photoacoustic imaging; Prostate brachytherapy; Seed localization

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL SETTINGS; EASE OF USE; EX-VIVO; INTRA-OPERATIVE; LOW COSTS; LOW DOSE RATE; MULTIPLE SEEDS; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE TISSUE; REDUCING COSTS; SEED LOCALIZATION; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADIOTHERAPY; RESONANCE; SEED; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS; VISUALIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79955797859     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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