BACKGROUND Most of the current brachytherapy treatment planning systems (TPS) use the TG-43U1 recommendations for dosimetry in water phantom, not considering the heterogeneity effects. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is developing a method for obtaining correction factors for heterogeneity for Cs-137 brachytherapy sources based on pre-calculated MC simulations and interpolation. METHOD ...

ID: 8312 Title: The use of dual-energy CT images for Monte Carlo treatment planning: material extraction and metal artifact reduction Purpose: To investigate the feasibility of dual-energy CT-based material extraction (DECT) for Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculations, to evaluate metal streaking artifact reduction using DECT and to propose a novel scanning technique for motion artifacts reduction. ...

Concurrent hyperthermia and radiation therapy in treatment of cancer show a strong evidence of a synergistic enhancement. We designed a new self-regulating Thermo-Brachytherapy seed, which serves as a source of both radiation and heat for concurrent administration of brachytherapy and hyperthermia. The Thermo-Brachytherapy seed has a core of ferromagnetic material which produces heat when subje...

introduction: the use of low energy isotopes such as  103 pd in brachytherapy for the treatment of cancers  such as prostate, eye, head, neck, breast and cervix is increasing. in this regard, different models of pd- 103  seeds  have  been  designed  and  manufactured  at  the  agricultural,  medical  and  industrial  research  school (amirs) of atomic energy organization of iran. in this resear...

BACKGROUND Despite a large body of data suggesting that delivery of fertility care to cancer patients is inconsistent and frequently insufficient, there is a paucity of literature examining training in fertility preservation for those physicians expected to discuss options or execute therapy. The study objective was to compare fertility preservation training between Reproductive Endocrinology &...

Theoretical and experimental dosimetric studies have been supplied useful information on the dependence of the brachytherapy source geometry and materials (1-5). Usually, Monte Carlo method is used to define dose distribution function, the radial dose variation, and the dose calculation close to the source in brachytherapy. Chen et al. (6). calculated the distribution of absorbed dose around co...

PURPOSE To report the preliminary experimental results obtained with a robot-assisted transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided prostate brachytherapy system. METHODS AND MATERIALS The system consists of a TRUS unit, a spatially coregistered needle insertion robot, and an FDA-approved treatment planning and image-registered implant system. The robot receives each entry/target coordinate pair of th...