Techniques for permanent low dose rate seed brachytherapy for prostate cancer have
evolved in the recent years with increasing use of interactive planning in the operating room …

PURPOSE: To provide updated American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) guidelines for
transrectal ultrasound-guided transperineal interstitial permanent prostate brachytherapy …

Low-dose rate brachytherapy has become a mainstream treatment option for men
diagnosed with prostate cancer because of excellent long-term treatment outcomes in low …

PURPOSE: We evaluated the potential for differing acute and chronic toxicities between 2
monotherapy methods of image guided conformal brachytherapy, high dose rate (HDR) …

Automatic prostate segmentation in ultrasound images is a challenging task due to speckle
noise, missing boundary segments, and complex prostate anatomy. One popular approach …

We present a robotically assisted prostate brachytherapy system and test results in training
phantoms and Phase-I clinical trials. The system consists of a transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) …

We conducted a canine study to investigate the in vivo feasibility of photoacoustic imaging
for intraoperative updates to brachytherapy treatment plans. A fiber coupled to a 1064-nm …

In prostate brachytherapy, an needle is used to implant radioactive seeds. This thin needle
can be deflected from the preplanned trajectory in the prostate, potentially resulting in a …

Purpose: A new technique called “curvilinear approach” for prostate seed implantation has
been proposed. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the dosimetric benefit of curvilinear …

In this paper we report and characterize a semi-automatic prostate segmentation method for
prostate brachytherapy. Based on anatomical evidence and requirements of the treatment …