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Advanced Ultrasound: Prostate Elastography and Photoacoustic Imaging

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Conventional B-mode transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) is used extensively to aid in visualizing the prostate gland and needle during biopsy. However, TRUS has limited sensitivity and specificity for prostate cancer detection (Nelson et al. 2007; Correas et al. 2013), and therefore advanced ultrasonic methods are currently being investigated to improve prostate cancer detection.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Stephen Rosenzweig & Kathryn Nightingale PhD

  2. Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Richard Bouchard PhD

  3. Department of Urology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Thomas Polascik MD

  4. Ultrasound Business Unit, Siemens Healthcare, Mountain View, CA, USA

    Liang Zhai PhD

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Rosenzweig, S., Bouchard, R., Polascik, T., Zhai, L., Nightingale, K. (2014). Advanced Ultrasound: Prostate Elastography and Photoacoustic Imaging. In: Bard, R., Fütterer, J., Sperling, D. (eds) Image Guided Prostate Cancer Treatments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40429-0_3

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