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Research Article

The significance of accurate dielectric tissue data for hyperthermia treatment planning

Pages 123-142 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

For hyperthermia treatment planning, dielectric properties of several tissue types are required. Since it is difficult to perform patient specific dielectric imaging, default values based on literature data are used. However, these show a large spread (50%). Consequently, it is important to know what limit this spread imposes on the accuracy of the SAR and subsequently on the temperature distributions. Hyperthermia treatment plans performed with different values for the dielectric properties were compared. This showed that a spread of 50% resulted in the average absolute difference of 20% in both SAR and temperature distributions (heat sink approach) for regional hyperthermia. For interstitial hyperthermia, a spread of 25% resulted in the averaged absolute difference of 10% in the SAR distributions and 5% in the temperature distributions (heat sink approach). Considering other problems that hamper hyperthermia treatment planning, it can be concluded that default values for the dielectric properties suffice.

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