Monte Carlo Dosimetric Study of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty and Brachytherapy for the Treatment of Spinal Metastases
Abstract:Background:
Percutaneous vertebroplasty employs bone cement for injecting into the fractured vertebral body (VB) caused by spinal metastases. Radioactive bone cement and also brachytherapy seeds have been utilized to suppress the tumor growth in the VB.
Objective:
This study aims to investigate the dose distributions of low-energy brachytherapy seeds, and to compare them to those of radioactive bone cement, by Monte Carlo simulation.
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