Validation of 3D ultrasound: CT registration of prostate images

Evelyn A. Firle; Stefan Wesarg; Grigoris Karangelis; Christian Dold

doi:10.1117/12.481131

15 May 2003 Validation of 3D ultrasound: CT registration of prostate images

Evelyn A. Firle, Stefan Wesarg, Grigoris Karangelis, Christian Dold

Proceedings Volume 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.481131
Event: Medical Imaging 2003, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

All over the world 20% of men are expected to develop prostate cancer sometime in his life. In addition to surgery - being the traditional treatment for cancer - the radiation treatment is getting more popular. The most interesting radiation treatment regarding prostate cancer is Brachytherapy radiation procedure. For the safe delivery of that therapy imaging is critically important. In several cases where a CT device is available a combination of the information provided by CT and 3D Ultrasound (U/S) images offers advantages in recognizing the borders of the lesion and delineating the region of treatment. For these applications the CT and U/S scans should be registered and fused in a multi-modal dataset. Purpose of the present development is a registration tool (registration, fusion and validation) for available CT volumes with 3D U/S images of the same anatomical region, i.e. the prostate. The combination of these two imaging modalities interlinks the advantages of the high-resolution CT imaging and low cost real-time U/S imaging and offers a multi-modality imaging environment for further target and anatomy delineation. This tool has been integrated into the visualization software "InViVo" which has been developed over several years in Fraunhofer IGD in Darmstadt.

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Evelyn A. Firle, Stefan Wesarg, Grigoris Karangelis, and Christian Dold "Validation of 3D ultrasound: CT registration of prostate images", Proc. SPIE 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing, (15 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.481131

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