Gamma knife 3-D dose distribution mapping by magnetic resonance imaging
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In medical processes where ionizing radiation is used, dose planning and dose delivery are the key elements to patient safety and treatment success, particularly, when the delivered dose in a single session of treatment can be an order of magnitude higher than the regular doses of radiotherapy. Therefore, the radiation dose should be well defined and precisely delivered to the target while minimizing radiation exposure to surrounding normal tissues [1]. Several methods have been proposed to obtain three-dimensional (3-D) dose distribution [2, 3]. In this paper, we propose an alternative method, which can be easily implemented in any stereotactic radiosurgery center with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility. A phantom with or without scattering centers filled with Fricke gel solution is irradiated with Gamma Knife system at a chosen spot. The phantom can be a replica of a human organ such as head, breast or any other organ. It can even be constructed from a real 3-D MR image of an organ of a patient using a computer-aided construction and irradiated at a specific region corresponding to the tumor position determined by MRI. The spin–lattice relaxation time T1 of different parts of the irradiated phantom is determined by localized spectroscopy. The T1-weighted phantom images are used to correlate the image pixels intensity to the absorbed dose and consequently a 3-D dose distribution with a high resolution is obtained.
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CERVANTES, HERNAN J.; CAVINATO, CHRISTIANNE C.; CAMPOS, LETICIA L.; RABBANI, SAID R. Gamma knife 3-D dose distribution mapping by magnetic resonance imaging. Applied Magnetic Resonance, v. 39, n. 4, p. 357-364, 2010. DOI: 10.1007/s00723-010-0166-4. Disponível em: http://repositorio.ipen.br/handle/123456789/4573. Acesso em: 20 Mar 2026.
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