title: A software tool to assist placement of multiple parallel brachytherapy sources using the Brown-Roberts-Wells stereotactic system.
abstract: The authors present a simple software written in Turbo Pascal which allows placement of multiple parallel sources for interstitial brachytherapy using the Brown-Roberts-Wells CT stereotactic system. The user can choose any direction in space, independently from the CT plane, and any number of linear sources arranged on one or more hypothetical cylinders of variable radius. The sources can be rotated on the cylinder in order to avoid critical structures. This small program runs on any IBM compatible computer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Favre
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Raimondi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fankhauser
mesh_terms: D001918:Brachytherapy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*