PMID: 8946378Oct 1, 1996Paper

A totally integrated simulation technique for three-field breast treatment using a CT simulator

Medical Physics
E K ButkerL W Davis

Abstract

A method was devised to simulate patients with breast cancer in the actual treatment position utilizing a diagnostic CT spiral scanner, 3-D Image Workstation for virtual simulation, and a laser coordinate system to transfer planning parameters to the patient's skin. It was desired to produce non-divergent tangential beams through the lung as well as a matched line for tangential and supraclavicular fields. The patients were immobilized in an Alpha CradleTM cast. Radio-opaque markers were placed on the superior, inferior, medial, and lateral margins of the field so as to afford appropriate initial field set-up approximations. The patient was scanned. The data set was then transferred to the workstation where an isocenter was chosen. The patient was marked. Virtual simulation was then performed. This method employed a half beam technique for the posterior edge of the tangential fields. Table rotation and blocking of the superior margin of the tangential fields were used to produce a vertical edge to match a supraclavicular field. Using a beam's eye view the lateral tangent was matched to the medial exit. A digitally reconstructed radiograph was created to define the tangent fields and place the supraclavicular block. Our initial ...Continue Reading

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