Computer Simulation of Radioactive Source Delivery Process in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Brachytherapy

Author

Pei-shan Dai ; Bo-liang Wang ; Ming Chen ; Xiao-Ping Min ; Ying Ju

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol. Changsha, Changsha

fYear

2007

fDate

6-8 July 2007

Firstpage

671

Lastpage

674

Abstract

Brachytherapy is one of the major means of nasopharyngeal carcinoma treatments. The process of radioactive source delivery and the distribution of radioactive dose are two pivotal factors of brachytherapy planning. A new method for simulation of the two factors was proposed in this paper. Firstly, the CT images of the nasopharyngeal tissues were segmented and the 3D models of nasopharyngeal tissues were reconstructed. Then the process of cylindrical radioactive source delivery was simulated with virtual endoscopy method. A new computing method of 3D radioactive source delivery path planning based on Ta-chih Lee´s thinning algorithm was proposed. Finally, the dose distribution of cylindrical radioactive source was simulated by Monte Carlo method. Based on this method, computer simulation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma brachytherapy process can be realized and it will be of great help to the design of nasopharyngeal carcinoma brachytherapy plan.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; biological tissues; brachytherapy; cancer; computerised tomography; image reconstruction; image segmentation; medical image processing; Monte Carlo method; Ta-chih Lee thinning algorithm; computed tomography; computer simulation; image reconstruction; image segmentation; nasopharyngeal carcinoma brachytherapy; nasopharyngeal tissues; radioactive source delivery; virtual endoscopy; Brachytherapy; Computational modeling; Computed tomography; Computer simulation; Endoscopes; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Path planning; Pharynx; Skeleton;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2007. ICBBE 2007. The 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1120-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2007.175

Filename

4272659