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Research Article

Development of a regional hyperthermia treatment planning system

Pages 207-220 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

A flexible and fast regional hyperthermia treatment planning system for the Coaxial TEM System has been devised and is presented. Using Hounsfield Unit based thresholding and manually outlining of the tumour, a 40cm CT data set (slice thickness 5mm) is segmented and down scaled to a resolution of 1cm, requiring only 30min. The SAR model is based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The number of time steps to achieve numerical stability has been determined and was found to be 7000. Various optimizations of the SAR model have been applied, resulting in a relatively short computation time of 3.7h (memory requirements 121MB) on a Pentium III, 450MHz standard personal computer, running GNU/Linux. The model has been validated using |Ez| measurements in a standard phantom inserted in the Coaxial TEM Applicator under different conditions and a good agreement was found. Hyperthermia treatment planning in combination with the homemade visualization tools have provided much insight in the regional hyperthermia treatment with the Coaxial TEM Applicator.

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