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Figure 1. 2-D (top) vs 3-D (bottom). The irregularly marginated left tumor mass that bulges the lateral capsule appears three times the volume on the multiplanar 3-D/4-D image reconstruction and shows complete extraprostatic extension. Note: This anterolateral lesion is not clinically palpable.
Feature | Prostate Cancer | September 05, 2019 | By Robert Bard, M.D., DABR, FASLM
Extracapsular extension (ECE) is a major clinical indicator for brachytherapy or external beam treatment of prostate...
News | Radiation Therapy | August 22, 2019
August 22, 2019 — As fiducial markers gain traction in parallel to rising incidences of various cancer affecting lung,...
Videos | Treatment Planning | August 21, 2019
This is an example of the Mirada DLCExpert deep learning software that automatically identifies organs, segments and...
News | Prostate Cancer | August 20, 2019
August 20, 2019 — According to the American Cancer Society, approximately one in nine men will be diagnosed with...
News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) | August 19, 2019
August 19, 2019 — ViewRay Inc. announced the acceptance of publication by the International Journal of Radiation...
Technology | Interventional Radiology | August 16, 2019
August 16, 2019 — Profound Medical Corp. announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug...
News | Brachytherapy Systems | August 14, 2019
August 14, 2019 — Isoray announced a trio of studies recently reported at scientific meetings and published in medical...
News | Artificial Intelligence | July 26, 2019
July 26, 2019 — Oncology company Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced their collaboration with the Veterans Affairs...
Videos | Artificial Intelligence | July 22, 2019
Leigh Conroy, Ph.D., physics resident, University Health Network, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Canada,...
News | Proton Therapy | July 17, 2019
July 17, 2019 — Treating prostate cancer with higher doses of proton therapy over a shorter amount of time leads to...
News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers | July 01, 2019
July 1, 2019 — Bracco Imaging S.p.A. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Blue Earth Diagnostics, a molecular...
News | Prostate Cancer | June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019 — A new study reveals black men are less likely than white men to adopt an active surveillance strategy...
The picture shows that time series signal is extracted from a series of ultrasound frames for classification. Each patch across a number of frames inside the prostate is classified into either cancerous or normal tissue. The image at the lower right corner shows the overall result for those frames. Image courtesy of Pingkun Yan and researchers from NIH, University of British Columbia and Queens University.
News | Ultrasound Imaging | May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019 — Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working to improve imaging methods in order to make...
News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers | May 13, 2019
May 13, 2019 — Blue Earth Diagnostics announced expanded access to the Axumin (fluciclovine (18F)) imaging agent in...
News | Artificial Intelligence | April 18, 2019
April 18, 2019 — University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | March 19, 2019
March 19, 2019 — EDAP TMS SA announced that Houston Methodist Hospital, one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to offer...
News | Treatment Planning | March 08, 2019
March 8, 2019 — Anderson Regional Cancer Center in Meridian, Miss., has treated its first patient using the combination...
News | Prostate Cancer | February 12, 2019
February 12, 2019 — Cambridge Consultants has partnered with Exact Imaging, makers of the ExactVu micro-ultrasound...
News | Proton Therapy | January 28, 2019
January 28, 2019 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) announced the opening of the Apollo Proton Cancer Centre in Chennai,...
News | Brachytherapy Systems | January 04, 2019
January 4, 2018 — Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) indicated a significantly different clinician and patient-reported...
