Title :
Introducing a complementary treatment planning software for GZP6 brachytherapy system
Author :
Hariri, Sanaz ; Asl, Alireza Kamali
Author_Institution :
Radiat. Med. Eng., Shahid Beheshti Univ., Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Brachytherapy is one of the well-known methods for cancer treatment which uses implanted radioactive sources in the tumor to destruct it. One of the widespread high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy systems is GZP6 system. The treatment planning software of it has some deficiencies which are resolved by introducing a complementary treatment planning software (CTPS). The physical datasets needed for determining the dose distribution around each radioactive source have been obtained based on the Monte Carlo method. The GZP6 CTPS program suggests the user more flexibility in patient-specific treatments. It is an essential program for evaluating the correctness of non-predefined treatments with an easy use for medical staff. The GZP6 CTPS is an executable user friendly environment capable of being run on any computer and operating system while the datasets used for its calculations show a very little uncertainty of less than 1%.
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; brachytherapy; cancer; dosimetry; medical computing; tumours; GZP6 brachytherapy system; Monte Carlo method; cancer treatment; complementary treatment planning software; dose distribution; implanted radioactive sources; patient specific treatments; tumor; Applicators; Brachytherapy; Graphical user interfaces; Monte Carlo methods; Planning; Software; Steel; MATLAB software; Monte Carlo; high dose rate brachytherapy; treatment planning software;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2010 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yantai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6495-1
DOI :
10.1109/BMEI.2010.5639376