Abstract:Background: Existing gated delivery methods adopting predefined intervention thresholds, and better delivery accuracy comes at the expense of lower therapeutic efficiency. So we present a new gating strategy based on trajectory quantification and pattern discrimination. Material and methods: 1265 real-time ultrasound monitoring trajectories of 61 prostate cancer patients were retrospectively analyzed. The trajectories included four typical patterns: stable target at baseline, transient excursion, continuous dr… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.