The Clinical Efficiency and Learning Curve of Ultrasound (us)-Based Planning in High Dose Rate (hdr) Prostate Brachytherapy

To investigate the impacts on procedure time and clinical efficiency of moving from a CT to a US based prostate HDR procedure. The data comes from a high-volume center performing over 200 prostate HDR cases per year. The cases consist of a 15 Gy prostate boost given before or after a 44 Gy pelvis irradiation delivered with VMAT. HDR prostate brachytherapy had been performed since 1999 at our center and was performed using a CT on rails located inside the operating room (OR) for the data presented here.
Source: Brachytherapy - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Source Type: research