Modern Brachytherapy Treatment Planning
Catheters/Applicators (Sources) Localisation
The actual aim of the Localisation Process is:
to define the 3D-positions of the sources or of the possible
source dwell positions and register these to the relevant
anatomy (PTV, OARs).
This presumes:
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Localisation of the implanted Catheters/Needles/
Applicators and
•
Knowledge of Afterloader and Catheter/Applicator specific
Information/Characteristics.