Dose rate constants for 125I, 103Pd, 192Ir and 169Yb brachytherapy sources: An EGS4 Monte Carlo study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1557-1566

  Mainegra, Ernesto ^a   Capote, Roberto ^a   López, Ernesto ^a  

^a Ctr de Estud Aplicados al DN   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; IRIDIUM 192; PENTETATE YTTERBIUM YB 169;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BIOPHYSICS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PALLADIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; WATER; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 0031836440     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/6/014     Document Type: Article

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