Monte Carlo-aided dosimetry of a new high dose-rate brachytherapy source

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2200-2208

  Daskalov, Georgi M ^a   Löffler, Edgar ^b,c   Williamson, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Nucletron BV   (Netherlands)

^c Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; High dose rate brachytherapy; Ir 192; Monte Carlo simulation; Task Group 43

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CABLES; CATHETERS; DOSIMETRY; EXTRAPOLATION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TABLE LOOKUP;

CALCULATION ERROR; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH-DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; LINEAR EXTRAPOLATION; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; TASK GROUPS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 0031739032     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598418     Document Type: Article

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