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MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
卷 46, 期 5, 页码 1006-1013出版社
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1288
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poly(vinyl alcohol) cryogel; temperature dosimetry; MR relaxation; phantoms
Hyperthermic therapy is being used for a variety of medical treatments, such as tumor ablation and the enhancement Of radiation therapy. Research in this area requires a tool to record the temperature distribution created by a heat source, similar to the dosimetry gels used in radiation therapy to record dose distribution. Poly(vinyl alcohol) cryogel (PVA-C) is presented as a material capable of recording temperature distributions between 45 and 70 degreesC, with less than a VC error. An approximately linear, positive relationship between MR relaxation times and applied temperature is demonstrated, with a maximum of 16.3 ms/degreesC change in T-1 and 10.2 ms/degreesC in T-2 for a typical PVA-C gel. Applied heat reduces the amount of cross-linking in PVA-C, which is responsible for a predictable change in T-1 and T-2 times. Temperature distributions in PVA-C volumes may be determined by matching MR relaxation times across the volumes to calibration values produced in samples subjected to known temperatures. Factors such as thermotolerance, perfusion effects, and thermal conductivity of PVA-C are addressed for potentially extending this method to modeling thermal doses in tissue. (C) 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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