[Topometric preparation of patients with cervix cancer for intracavitary irradiation on the ANET-B apparatus]. / Topometricheskaia podgotovka bol'nykh rakom sheiki matki k vnutripolostnomu oblucheniiu na apparate ANET-B.

The authors worked out methods of topometric investigation of cervical cancer patients during preparation for intracavitary irradiation using 252Cf fast neutron sources. The use of balloon catheters made it possible to determine a coefficient of projection enlargement in the point of interest, to determine accurately the distance between endostats, sources and contrasted organs of interest: the bladder and rectum. The results of the studies were used for individual design of intracavitary treatment as well as for the determination of radiation exposure of the pelvic organs in 38 patients. The patients received a total of 138 investigations.

[Analysis of the reproducibility of conditions of intracavitary irradiation of patients with cervix cancer]. / Analiz vosproizvodimosti uslovii vnutripolostnogo oblucheniia bol'nykh rakom sheiki matki.

The paper is concerned with the results of an analysis of reproducibility of conditions for intracavitary irradiation of 20 cervical cancer patients using metracolpostat, a combined therapeutic endostat consisting of 3 tubes: the central one to introduce radiation sources into the cervical canal and cavity of the uterus and 2 lateral ones with ovoids to deliver the sources to the vaults of the vagina. Topometric investigations for each patient were performed 4 times: before the first session of fractionated intracavitary irradiation with high activity 252Cf sources using the ANET-B unit and after each session of irradiation. It was shown that discordances between distances from the central endostat to the right and left lateral ovoids determined during roentgenotopometric preparation of each patient and taken as a basis of dosimetric design, and discordances between these distances determined as a result of roentgenotopometric control after each laying, are a random value distributed according to the normal law.