Open AccessSoftware development for hepatopulmonary shunt estimation by gamma camera method in transarterial radioembolization
Author(s) -
Ashish Kumar Jha,
Sneha Mithun,
Ameya Puranik,
Nilendu Purandare,
Sneha Shah,
Archi Agrawal,
Suyash Kulkarni,
Nitin Shetty,
Venkatesh Rangarajan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1607-3312
pISSN - 1450-1147
DOI - 10.4103/wjnm.wjnm_115_18
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatocellular carcinoma , radiology , nuclear medicine , gamma camera , radiation therapy , limiting , mechanical engineering , engineering
Trans-arterial radioembolization (TARE) is an established treatment for inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma and liver metastases from Carcinoma of gastrointestinal tract. Radiation-induced toxicity to the lung parenchyma is the dose-limiting factor in TARE. Pretreatment hepatopulmonary shunt (HPS) is estimated by gamma camera method by transarterial administration of 370MBq 99mTc macro aggregated albumin. We have developed HPS software on XELERIS-1.123 workstation, GE medical systems, Milwaukee, USA, for accurate calculation of HPS. This software has also been tested on a higher version of XELERIS workstation, and it has been found to work well in all versions.