2014 Summer Project Week:MR-Ultrasound Registration for Prostate Interventions
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Project Description
Prostate cancer is a kind of common cause of cancer in men in many countries.Transrectal ultra- sound (TRUS) is the most commonly used modality for guiding needle biopsies and minimally-invasive surgical interventions for the treatment of prostate cancer. However,it is difficult to accruately distinguish tumors in B-mode TRUS images. Magnetic resonance (MR) is a very promising technique for prostate biopsies and prostate intervention. Disadvantages of MR-guided prostate biopsies and prostate intervention are that RI is an expensive method and not widely available.MR to ultrasound registration can improve TRUS imaging and take advantages of both modalities. The object of this project it to develop a method for registrating MR-Ultrasound prostate images.
