Report on the dosimetry of a new design 125Iodine brachytherapy source

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1925-1931

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Calibration Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

125I; Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; Iodine 125; Source

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COBALT; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RATE CONSTANTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY; IODINE-125; RADIO-OPAQUE MARKERS; RELATIVE MEASUREMENT; SOURCE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; ^125I;

DOSIMETRY;

IODINE 125;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 0032873680     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598737     Document Type: Article

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