KnE Energy
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Enhancement of Radiotherapy Planning Quality for Patients with Implantable Electronic Devices
Published date: Apr 17 2018
Journal Title: KnE Energy
Issue title: The 2nd International Symposium "Physics, Engineering and Technologies for Biomedicine"
Pages: 183–187
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Abstract:
Nowadays radiological physicists increasingly face with the problem of artifactcorrupted planning computed tomography images. Such artifacts caused by a metal case of cardiac devices. The purpose of the research was to apply the artifacts reduction method in order to provide qualitative irradiation planning as well as accurately calculate the dose in the devices. The results obtained in this work are essential for radiological physicists to avoid cardiac devices being damaged during radiotherapy.
Keywords: Artifacts reduction, radiation therapy, implantable device
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