Sökning: "brachyterapi"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade ordet brachyterapi.

  1. 1. Deformable registration when combining brachytherapy and external beam radiotherapy

    Master-uppsats, KTH/Medicinsk avbildning

    Författare :Lisa Mach; [2021]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : Patients with cervical cancer are treated both with external beam radiotherapy(EBRT) and brachytherapy (BT) which involves an applicator. During the treatments, CT-images are taken and to perform dose calculations, deformable image registration (DIR) is performed. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Needle Navigation for Image Guided Brachytherapy of Gynecologic Cancer

    Master-uppsats, KTH/Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH)

    Författare :Alireza Mehrtash; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Image Guided Surgery; Surgical Navigation System; Needle Navigation system; Brachytherapy; MRI; 3D Slicer;

    Sammanfattning : In the past twenty years, the combination of the advances in medical imaging technologies and therapeutic methods had a great impact in developing minimally invasive interventional procedures. Although the use of medical imaging for the surgery and therapy guidance dates back to the early days of x-ray discovery, there is an increasing evidence in using the new imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT), magnetic reso- nance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound in the operating rooms. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Radiation protection measurements in clinical practice - Dosimetry with NaCl pellets

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sjukhusfysikerutbildningen

    Författare :Petter Wilke; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Physics and Astronomy;

    Sammanfattning : Within the field of medical radiation protection, radiation safety and personal dosimetry, there is a constant pursuit for improving existing methods and evaluating new approaches for measuring and quantifying the radiation doses that hospital staff may be exposed to in their clinical work. There are numerous ways of determining what doses the staff are being exposed to and the most commonly used is based on thermoluminescent dosemeters (TLD) with e. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Förekomsten av trycksår hos patienter som genomgår brachybehandling vid prostatacancer

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap

    Författare :Katarina Lundberg; Teresia Ekberg; [2011]
    Nyckelord :brachytherapy; pressure ulcers; lithotomy position; risk factors; brachyterapi; trycksår; gynekologiskt läge; riskfaktorer;

    Sammanfattning : Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. One type of treatment is internal radiation therapy, brachytherapy. This treatment requires the patient to lie completely motionless and in lithotomy position. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Patientupplevelser vid brachyterapi mot prostatacancer

    Magister-uppsats, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för hälsovetenskap och medicin

    Författare :Ingrid Alkebro; [2007]
    Nyckelord :Prostate cancer; brachytherapy; nursing; experience;

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