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The overall project goal is to develop an advanced imaging technology to assess treatmentrelated erectile dysfunction and therebyimprove sexual outcomes and quality of life of prostatecancer survivors. This project has 3 major steps: (1) develop a new technique forcombining MRI and ultrasound images in a way that can allow physicians to see the neurovascular bundle (NVB) clearly and reliably, (2)confirm that these new imaging findings match the patients outcome with respect to their erectile function, and (3) use the new imagingtechniques to reduce radiation dose to the NVB. Over the current period, we have made significant progress in the development of thetechnology to combine MRI and Ultrasound images (including Doppler images), and made significant progress on subject accrual for thecalibration study and longitudinal clinical study that is the core of the project.