Douglas A Hoover, PhD

In head-and-neck radiotherapy, relatively large planning target volume (PTV) margins of 5-mm are standardly used to account for setup uncertainty and anatomical variations. However, this comes at the expense of increased dose to nearby structures, resulting i...

We previously developed a system capable of acquiring accurate transrectal 3D micro-ultrasound (mUS) images to allow for visualization and focal treatment of intra-prostatic lesions during prostate brachytherapy. This system made use of a mUS probe with non-s...