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BACKGROUND Accurate target localization is mandatory in the accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) delivery. Dosimetric verification for positional error will further guarantee the accuracy of treatment delivery. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical feasibility of a cone beam computer tomographic (CBCT) image correction method in APBI. METHODS A CBCT image correction m...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We determined the radiation dose in patients' lenses during pituitary surgery with either conventional fluoroscopy or CT-guided neuronavigation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD-100H) were attached to the lenses of an anthropomorphic Alderson-Rando head phantom. Simulation of the conventional setup of continuous fluoroscopy (61 kV peak, 2.01 mAs) ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the potential dose reduction in the uterus as a result of lead apron protection during thoracic CT scans. Moreover, the distribution of the radiation dose in the uterus was determined in order to obtain information about the ratio of internally and externally scattered radiation. MATERIALS AND METHODS The uterus doses during thoracic CT were de...

background: in myocardial perfusion spect imaging, images are degraded by photon attenuation, the distance-dependent collimator, detector response and photons scatter. filters greatly affect quality of nuclear medicine images materials and methods: a phantom simulating heart left ventricle was built. about 1mci of 99mtc was injected into the phantom. images were taken from this phantom. some fi...

Segmented attenuation correction is now a widely accepted technique to reduce noise propagation from transmission scanning in positron emission tomography (PET). In this paper, we present a new method for segmenting transmission images in whole-body scanning. This reduces the noise in the correction maps while still correcting for differing attenuation coefficients of specific tissues. Based on...

introduction quality control is an important phenomenon in nuclear medicine imaging. a jaszczak spect phantom provides consistent performance information for any spect or pet system. this article describes the simulation of a jaszczak phantom and creating an executable phantom file for comparing assessment of spect cameras using simind monte carlo simulation program which is well-established fo...