Abstract #4197

Registration of Magnetic Resonance Images of the Prostate Obtained with an Endorectal Coil to Histological Sections

Yousef Mazaheri¹, Oguz Akin², Amita Shukla-Dave¹, Daniel Chamudot¹, Liang Wang², Joanna Grater¹, Samson W. Fine³, Victor Reuter³, Jason A. Koutcher¹, Hedvig Hricak²

¹Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; ²Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; ³Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

We present a 2D semiautomatic nonrigid registration method to co-register in vivo MR images of the human prostate to corresponding sections from whole-mount step-section pathology after radical prostatectomy.