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- A study reviewed CT scans of patients who underwent pituitary tumor treatment with different radioactive rods to evaluate the impact on image quality.
- In patients treated with 90Y rods, no significant image artefacts were found, allowing for satisfactory imaging.
- Conversely, most patients treated with 198Au, either alone or combined with 90Y, experienced severe artefacts that compromised image quality.
Article Abstract
Computed tomographic scans of the pituitary fossa following treatment of pituitary tumours by interstitial irradiation were reviewed for the degree of metallic artefact created by the rods. Among 50 patients treated with 90Y rods alone, none showed artefact to a degree that caused technically unsatisfactory images in coronal or axial cuts. Among the seven patients who had been treated with 198Au, either alone (two patients) or with both 198Au and 90Y rods (five patients), six had severe artefact and in five of these the images were technically unsatisfactory in both coronal and axial slices. We conclude that following implantation of 90Y rods, the currently preferred isotope, the pituitary fossa can be satisfactorily assessed by computed tomography.
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