METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BRACHYTHERAPY Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61N5/10 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to medicine. Brachytherapeutic system contains: applicator for positioning radioactive granule, having multitude of hollow and extendable channels, tracking device, including sensor, containing coils or antennae, which have different orientations relative to sensor position, generator if tracking signals, made with possibility of generating signal, received by tracking device, and processor. Size and shape of tracking device make it possible for it to travel forward and backward through multitude of channels. Processor is made with possibility of obtaining measurements of position from tracking device, determination of position of multitude of channels, determination of location of multitude of channels on image, basing on said measurement of position from tracking device, and creation of plan of brachytherapy for introduction of radiation dose. Machine-readable information carrier contains code performed by computer, which realises stages of method of brachytherapeutic system application.

EFFECT: group of inventions makes it possible to reduce X-ray load and increase accuracy of brachytherapy planning.

16 cl, 6 dwg