Assessment of the strength of individual 192Ir seeds in ribbons

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2471-2475

  Thomadsen, Bruce ^a   DeWerd, Larry ^b   McNutt, Todd ^a,d   DeWerd, Scott ^c   Schmidt, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Standard Imaging   (United States)

^d ADAC Geometrics Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

192Ir; Brachytherapy; Calibration; Quality assurance; Source strength

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ONCOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE; LEAD SHIELDING; SINGLE SOURCE; SOURCE STRENGTH; ^192IR;

RADIATION SHIELDING;

IRIDIUM 192;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0032692241     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598766     Document Type: Article

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