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[en] Treatment planning for ultrasound-guided transperitoneal I-125 permanent prostatic implants is a time consuming task, because this treatment uses many seeds (e.g. 50-80) and there are many solutions (seed positions) for optimizing the dose distribution. In conventional treatment planning for brachytherapy the locations of sources are usually input into a computer manually with reference to two X-ray films. We use so many sources in this treatment that we can hardly obtain accurate location of each source. That is, the identification of each seed with two X-ray films is very difficult. Even though we can use X-ray CT images for deciding on the source position, there are artifacts due to the high attenuation material. This paper proposes a method for obtaining accurate locations of radioactive sources from some projection data (e.g. right posterior oblique (RPO) 60, 40, 20, left posterior oblique (LPO) 60, 40, 20 and 0 deg.) with a reconstruction method. In our method for obtaining actual source positions we use an iterative image reconstruction technique. The results obtained by experiments with a simple prostate phantom and the RANDO phantom showed that the locations of dummy seeds were accurately decided with a reconstructed image by six or seven projection data. (author)
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Igaku Butsuri; ISSN 1345-5354;
; v. 23(2); p. 132-139

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BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BODY, DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DISEASES, ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES, GLANDS, IMPLANTS, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES, IODINE ISOTOPES, IRRADIATION, ISOTOPES, MALE GENITALS, MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS, MEDICINE, MOCKUP, NEOPLASMS, NUCLEAR MEDICINE, NUCLEI, NUMERICAL SOLUTION, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, ORGANS, PROCESSING, RADIATION SOURCES, RADIOISOTOPES, RADIOLOGY, STRUCTURAL MODELS, THERAPY
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