Prostate Cancer is a Problem

Over 250,000 men in the US are diagnosed with prostate cancer yearly and ~35,000 die from the disease. Clearly, continuing improvements need to be made in prostate cancer treatment to address this deadly problem. Current methods for radiation cancer therapy have difficulty identifying precisely where to irradiate the patient and how much radiation was delivered.

SoundDose aims to improve radiation cancer therapy for prostate cancer by verifying the radiation beam location and dose magnitude, providing physicians with vital information for a successful treatment.

XACT/US Technology

SoundDose uses two imaging techniques to improve cancer treatment: X-Ray Acoustic Computed Tomography and Ultrasound (XACT/US). When the treatment X-ray beam interacts with tissue, ultrasonic acoustic waves are emitted. These are called X-ray Acoustic waves (XA waves) and are picked up by an ultrasound probe, providing information on the radiation dose delivered and beam position.

Ultrasound images are also collected to show the location of organs and the tumor. By overlaying the ultrasound image and XA image, SoundDose gives doctors a powerful dual modality technique to see what treatment the patient is receiving. 

Business Plan

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Team

Meet the team

Email

Team Lead: Benjamin Lam | bxlam@uci.edu
Team Advisor: Liangzhong (Shawn) Xiang, PhD | liangzhx@hs.uci.edu

Address

Medical Sciences, B-134
Irvine, CA 92697-5000
United States of America