Erectile dysfunction following permanent prostate brachytherapy with dose escalation to biological tumor volumes (BTVs) identified with SPECT/CT fusion

Ellis, Rodney J.; Kaminsky, Deborah A.; Zhou, Hang; Resnick, Martin I.

doi:10.1016/j.brachy.2007.02.057

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“…Prostate is another organ that has been studied using multi-modal medical images. There exists a range of techniques and studies on prostrate based image fusion, that often face the challenge deformation of prostrate in multi-modal imaging setups [271,148,149,174,264,278,234,279,282,150,151,152,311,155,312,156,236,237,215,159,239,160,313,162,163,241,165,168,169,171]. The medical image analysis techniques on prostate include localization of the prostate for 3D conformal radiation therapy [148], prostate localization in the post-planning setting [314] evaluation of prostate gland motion and volume changes [315], evaluation of prostate seed brachytherapy [234], thermal ablation of the prostate cancer [152,153], histology study of prostate tissue [279], post implant dosimetric analysis of prostate brachytherapy [157,161], prostate brachytherapy [237,157,161], and biomechanical modeling of prost...…”

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“…The medical image analysis techniques on prostate include localization of the prostate for 3D conformal radiation therapy [148], prostate localization in the post-planning setting [314] evaluation of prostate gland motion and volume changes [315], evaluation of prostate seed brachytherapy [234], thermal ablation of the prostate cancer [152,153], histology study of prostate tissue [279], post implant dosimetric analysis of prostate brachytherapy [157,161], prostate brachytherapy [237,157,161], and biomechanical modeling of prostate motion [316]. The imaging modalities that deal with prostate include ultrasound [271,149,264,278,234,279,237,162,241,316], X-rays [271], CT [148,174,264,234,150,154,239,155,156,236,237,157,160,313,161,241,165,168], MRI [148,…”

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Medical image fusion: A survey of the state of the art

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Medical image fusion is the process of registering and combining multiple images from single or multiple imaging modalities to improve the imaging quality and reduce randomness and redundancy in order to increase the clinical applicability of medical images for diagnosis and assessment of medical problems. Multi-modal medical image fusion algorithms and devices have shown notable achievements in improving clinical accuracy of decisions based on medical images. This review article provides a factual listing of methods and summarizes the broad scientific challenges faced in the field of medical image fusion. We characterize the medical image fusion research based on (1) the widely used image fusion methods, (2) imaging modalities, and (3) imaging of organs that are under study. This review concludes that even though there exists several open ended technological and scientific challenges, the fusion of medical images has proved to be useful for advancing the clinical reliability of using medical imaging for medical diagnostics and analysis, and is a scientific discipline that has the potential to significantly grow in the coming years.

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