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罢丑别听听technology combines MRI scans with ultrasound images to better pinpoint prostate cancer and provide surgeons with a precise location to biopsy. With 1 in 8 men estimated to get prostate cancer in their lifetime, the potential impact of improved treatment and early diagnosis for millions of patients worldwide is vast.

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The software has been evaluated on听hundreds of patients to date, including 129 men who took part in a targeted prostate biopsy trial at University College London Hospital (香港六合彩中特网H) during which the software successfully diagnosed more than 90 percent of prostate cancers. Dr Dean Barratt (香港六合彩中特网 Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering/CMIC/WEISS), who invented and led the system鈥檚 development, explains听鈥淲e developed the SmartTarget system to equip surgeons with vital information about the size, shape and location of prostate tumours during a biopsy that is otherwise invisible on ultrasound images.鈥�

鈥淭he software provides them with a clear target. As MRI-targeted biopsies require a very high degree of expertise and experience, we hope that the imagery displayed by SmartTarget will help to bring high accuracy prostate cancer diagnosis to a much wider range of patients and hospitals.鈥澨�

The team that made this research possible was highly interdisciplinary, involving engineers, computer scientists, clinicians, clinical trial co-ordinators, health economists, and business experts from across 香港六合彩中特网, 香港六合彩中特网 Business PLC (香港六合彩中特网B), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.听 The 香港六合彩中特网 clinical leads were Professor Mark Emberton (香港六合彩中特网 Medical Sciences), Professor Caroline Moore (香港六合彩中特网 Medical Sciences), and Professor Hashim Ahmed (now at Imperial College London). The technology is based heavily on the patented research of Dr Yipeng Hu (香港六合彩中特网 Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering/WEISS) and Rachael Rodell (SmartTarget Ltd) is the lead software engineer responsible for the commercial software product. The SmartTarget software has been commercialised by SmartTarget Ltd, a company spun out by 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 commercialisation company 香港六合彩中特网B and the system has been in use by several hospitals in the UK and USA.

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