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An Invisible Skin Marker for External Beam Radiation Therapy: Utilization of Ultraviolet Fluorescent Marker Pens

Radiation therapy plays an important role in cancer treatment along with surgery and systemic therapy. The total dose of radiation therapy is divided into small doses, and the treatment is typically delivered once a day. The total treatment period can need several weeks or more, and it is necessary...

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Autores principales: Katano, Atsuto, Nozawa, Yuki, Imae, Toshikazu, Yamashita, Hideomi, Nakagawa, Keiichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9974216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36865951
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34347
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author Katano, Atsuto
Nozawa, Yuki
Imae, Toshikazu
Yamashita, Hideomi
Nakagawa, Keiichi
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Nozawa, Yuki
Imae, Toshikazu
Yamashita, Hideomi
Nakagawa, Keiichi
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description Radiation therapy plays an important role in cancer treatment along with surgery and systemic therapy. The total dose of radiation therapy is divided into small doses, and the treatment is typically delivered once a day. The total treatment period can need several weeks or more, and it is necessary to deliver the radiation dose to the target volume within the patient precisely each time. Therefore, the reproducibility of patient positioning is essential for the precision of the dose delivery. Although radiological technologies such as image-guided radiation therapy have also recently been widely used for positioning patients, skin marking is still widely used in many facilities. Skin marking is an inexpensive and universal positioning technique in patients undergoing radiation therapy; however, it is considered a major source of psychological stress. We propose the use of fluorescent ink pens, which are invisible in standard room lighting, as skin markers for radiotherapy. The primary technique of fluorescence emission is widely employed in molecular biological experiments and for assessing cleaning protocols for infection control. This technique may reduce the stress induced by skin markings during radiotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-99742162023-03-01 An Invisible Skin Marker for External Beam Radiation Therapy: Utilization of Ultraviolet Fluorescent Marker Pens Katano, Atsuto Nozawa, Yuki Imae, Toshikazu Yamashita, Hideomi Nakagawa, Keiichi Cureus Radiation Oncology Radiation therapy plays an important role in cancer treatment along with surgery and systemic therapy. The total dose of radiation therapy is divided into small doses, and the treatment is typically delivered once a day. The total treatment period can need several weeks or more, and it is necessary to deliver the radiation dose to the target volume within the patient precisely each time. Therefore, the reproducibility of patient positioning is essential for the precision of the dose delivery. Although radiological technologies such as image-guided radiation therapy have also recently been widely used for positioning patients, skin marking is still widely used in many facilities. Skin marking is an inexpensive and universal positioning technique in patients undergoing radiation therapy; however, it is considered a major source of psychological stress. We propose the use of fluorescent ink pens, which are invisible in standard room lighting, as skin markers for radiotherapy. The primary technique of fluorescence emission is widely employed in molecular biological experiments and for assessing cleaning protocols for infection control. This technique may reduce the stress induced by skin markings during radiotherapy. Cureus 2023-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9974216/ /pubmed/36865951 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34347 Text en Copyright © 2023, Katano et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Radiation Oncology
Katano, Atsuto
Nozawa, Yuki
Imae, Toshikazu
Yamashita, Hideomi
Nakagawa, Keiichi
An Invisible Skin Marker for External Beam Radiation Therapy: Utilization of Ultraviolet Fluorescent Marker Pens
title An Invisible Skin Marker for External Beam Radiation Therapy: Utilization of Ultraviolet Fluorescent Marker Pens
title_full An Invisible Skin Marker for External Beam Radiation Therapy: Utilization of Ultraviolet Fluorescent Marker Pens
title_fullStr An Invisible Skin Marker for External Beam Radiation Therapy: Utilization of Ultraviolet Fluorescent Marker Pens
title_full_unstemmed An Invisible Skin Marker for External Beam Radiation Therapy: Utilization of Ultraviolet Fluorescent Marker Pens
title_short An Invisible Skin Marker for External Beam Radiation Therapy: Utilization of Ultraviolet Fluorescent Marker Pens
title_sort invisible skin marker for external beam radiation therapy: utilization of ultraviolet fluorescent marker pens
topic Radiation Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9974216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36865951
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34347
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