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This study assesses the agreement between computed tomography (CT) measurements of prostate volume and those obtained by ultrasound (US), a well-established non-invasive technique. Twenty-six patients aged between 58 and 74 years were evaluated for prostate seed implant therapy using both CT and US measurements. The level of agreement between these 2 methods, which were strongly correlated (R2 = 0.828; p < 0.0001), was determined through Bland-Altman analysis. The mean prostate volume (+/- one standard deviation) of the sample was 31.8 +/- 10.5 cc for the CT method and 27.0 +/- 8.2 cc for the US method. The prostate volumes obtained by CT were, on average, 17% larger than the corresponding volumes determined by US. The average bias between the 2 imaging methods is 4.80 cc or 15%, which is significantly larger than the clinically acceptable margin of 10%.
