Apparatus and method for high dose rate brachytherapy radiation treatment
Abstract
A method and apparatus for the in vivo location and tracking of a radioactive seed source during and after brachytherapy treatment. The method comprises obtaining multiple views of the seed source in a living organism using: 1) a single PSPMT detector that is exposed through a multiplicity of pinholes thereby obtaining a plurality of images from a single angle; 2) a single PSPMT detector that may obtain an image through a single pinhole or a plurality of pinholes from a plurality of angles through movement of the detector; or 3) a plurality of PSPMT detectors that obtain a plurality of views from different angles simultaneously or virtually simultaneously. The plurality of images obtained from these various techniques, through angular displacement of the various acquired images, provide the information required to generate the three dimensional images needed to define the location of the radioactive seed source within the body of the living organism.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc.,Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1175222
- Patent Number(s):
- 6847838
- Application Number:
- 10/247,450
- Assignee:
- Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc.
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE A61B - DIAGNOSIS
A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84ER
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
Citation Formats
Macey, Daniel J., Majewski, Stanislaw, Weisenberger, Andrew G., Smith, Mark Frederick, and Kross, Brian James. Apparatus and method for high dose rate brachytherapy radiation treatment. United States: N. p., 2005.
Web.
Macey, Daniel J., Majewski, Stanislaw, Weisenberger, Andrew G., Smith, Mark Frederick, & Kross, Brian James. Apparatus and method for high dose rate brachytherapy radiation treatment. United States.
Macey, Daniel J., Majewski, Stanislaw, Weisenberger, Andrew G., Smith, Mark Frederick, and Kross, Brian James. Tue .
"Apparatus and method for high dose rate brachytherapy radiation treatment". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1175222.
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title = {Apparatus and method for high dose rate brachytherapy radiation treatment},
author = {Macey, Daniel J. and Majewski, Stanislaw and Weisenberger, Andrew G. and Smith, Mark Frederick and Kross, Brian James},
abstractNote = {A method and apparatus for the in vivo location and tracking of a radioactive seed source during and after brachytherapy treatment. The method comprises obtaining multiple views of the seed source in a living organism using: 1) a single PSPMT detector that is exposed through a multiplicity of pinholes thereby obtaining a plurality of images from a single angle; 2) a single PSPMT detector that may obtain an image through a single pinhole or a plurality of pinholes from a plurality of angles through movement of the detector; or 3) a plurality of PSPMT detectors that obtain a plurality of views from different angles simultaneously or virtually simultaneously. The plurality of images obtained from these various techniques, through angular displacement of the various acquired images, provide the information required to generate the three dimensional images needed to define the location of the radioactive seed source within the body of the living organism.},
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Works referenced in this record:
Feasibility study of in situ imaging of Ir-192 source during HDR brachytherapy procedure using a small gamma imager based on a Hamamatsu R3292 PSPMT
conference, January 1999
- Majewski, S.; Weisenberger, A. G.; Kross, B.
- 1999 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. Conference Record. 1999 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1999 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. Conference Record. 1999 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.99CH37019)