On verification of hyperthermia treatment planning for cervical carcinoma patients

Abstract

Good correlations between measurements and calculations were found when tissue contact of the catheters was good. The main difficulties for accurate verification were of clinical nature, arising from improper use of the gynaecological tampon. Poor thermal contact between thermocouples and tissue caused measurement artefacts that were difficult to correlate with calculations.

Clinical implementation of hyperthermia treatment planning guided steering: A cross over trial to assess its current contribution to treatment quality

“…The use of hyperthermia treatment planning is becoming common practice in hyperthermia [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], but for its online use during treatment, an optimisation routine is necessary that not only optimises power deposition in the tumour, but also reduces deposition in a complaint-related area (hyperthermia treatment planning guided steering, or HGS) [20].…”

Incidence of acute peripheral neurotoxicity after deep regional hyperthermia of the pelvis

“…We expect that we will improve the ability to prevent the occurrence of ANT when reliable hyperthermia treatment planning systems [18][19] and/or 3-D non-invasive thermometry systems [20][21] will become part of routine treatment procedures. At present, we are testing whether the Hyperplan modelling system [16,18] is helpful in optimizing treatments.…”

Optimisation-based thermal treatment planning for catheter-based ultrasound hyperthermia

“…Some examples of clinical hyperthermia treatment planning include the superficial hyperthermia treatment of melanoma on lower leg and exophytic tumour [16], intracavitary treatment of oesophageal cancer [17] and cervical carcinoma [18], reperfusion treatment of malignant limb cancer [19], interstitial treatment of brain and prostate [20], and in deep-regional clinical treatment of the patients with cervical, rectal, and prostate carcinoma [21].…”