Towards U-Net-based intraoperative 2D dose prediction in high dose rate prostate brachytherapy.

Journal: Brachytherapy
PMID: 39668102

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Poor needle placement in prostate high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) results in sub-optimal dosimetry and mentally predicting these effects during HDR-BT is difficult, creating a barrier to widespread availability of high-quality prostate HDR-BT.

Authors

  • Eric Knull
    Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
  • Christopher W Smith
    Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222, United States.
  • Aaron D Ward
    Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada.
  • Aaron Fenster
    Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, 100 Perth Drive, London, Ontario N6A 5K8, Canada.
  • Douglas A Hoover
    Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada.

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