Experimental and Monte Carlo dosimetry of the Henschke applicator for high dose-rate 192Ir remote afterloading

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 736-745

  Watanabe, Yoichi ^a   Roy, Jitendra ^a,b   Harrington, Patrick J ^a   Anderson, Lowell L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

192Ir; HDR; Henschke applicator; Monte Carlo; TLD

Indexed keywords

APPLICATORS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DOSIMETRY; STATISTICS; TABLE LOOKUP; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMBINED UNCERTAINTY; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; MEASUREMENT POINTS; MONTE CARLO DOSIMETRY; POLYSTYRENE PHANTOM; STANDARD DEVIATION; ^192IR;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

IRIDIUM 192; LITHIUM FLUORIDE; POLYSTYRENE; TUNGSTEN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031832848     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598255     Document Type: Article

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