In-vivo rectal dose measurements with diodes to avoid misadministrations during intracavitary high dose rate brachytherapy for carcinoma of the cervix

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 768-770

  Alecu, Rodica ^a   Alecu, Marius ^a  

^a Texas Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

High dose rate brachytherapy; Misadministrations; Rectal dose

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DWELL TIME; HIGH-DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; IN-VIVO; MEASURED VALUES; MISADMINISTRATIONS; RECTAL DOSE;

DIODES;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DIODE; DOSE CALCULATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0032910742     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598598     Document Type: Article

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