Evaluation of a new brachytherapy iodine-125 source by AAPM TG43 formalism

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2190-2196

  Wallace, Robert E ^a   Fan, Jay J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Calibration Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; Iodine 125; TG43

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DOSIMETRY; IODINE; ONCOLOGY; RATE CONSTANTS;

ANISOTROPY CONSTANTS; BRACHYTHERAPY; INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY; IODINE-125; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; TG43; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; TISSUE-EQUIVALENT MATERIALS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

IODINE 125;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; THICKNESS;

EID: 0031794929     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598416     Document Type: Article

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