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Paper Abstract
Better knowledge of elemental composition of patient tissues may improve the accuracy of absorbed dose delivery
in brachytherapy. Deficiencies of water-based protocols have been recognized and work is ongoing to implement
patient-specific radiation treatment protocols. A model based iterative image reconstruction algorithm DIRA
has been developed by the authors to automatically decompose patient tissues to two or three base components
via dual-energy computed tomography. Performance of an updated version of DIRA was evaluated for the
determination of prostate calcification. A computer simulation using an anthropomorphic phantom showed that
the mass fraction of calcium in the prostate tissue was determined with accuracy better than 9%. The calculated
mass fraction was little affected by the choice of the material triplet for the surrounding soft tissue. Relative
differences between true and approximated values of linear attenuation coefficient and mass energy absorption
coefficient for the prostate tissue were less than 6% for photon energies from 1 keV to 2 MeV. The results indicate
that DIRA has the potential to improve the accuracy of dose delivery in brachytherapy despite the fact that
base material triplets only approximate surrounding soft tissues.
Paper Details
Date Published: 19 March 2014
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging, 90333H (19 March 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2043445
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9033:
Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging
Bruce R. Whiting; Christoph Hoeschen, Editor(s)
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging, 90333H (19 March 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2043445
Show Author Affiliations
Alexandr Malusek, Linköping Univ. (Sweden)
Maria Magnusson, Linköping Univ. (Sweden)
Michael Sandborg, Linköping Univ. (Sweden)
Maria Magnusson, Linköping Univ. (Sweden)
Michael Sandborg, Linköping Univ. (Sweden)
Robin Westin, Linköping Univ. (Sweden)
Gudrun Alm Carlsson, Linköping Univ. (Sweden)
Gudrun Alm Carlsson, Linköping Univ. (Sweden)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9033:
Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging
Bruce R. Whiting; Christoph Hoeschen, Editor(s)
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