Dosimetry characterization of 32P catheter-based vascular brachytherapy source wire

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1770-1776

  Mourtada, Firas A ^a,c   Soares, Christopher G ^b   Seltzer, Stephen M ^b   Lott, Sam H ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Guidant Vascular Intervention   (United States)

Author keywords

32P; Beta dosimetry; Brachytherapy; Monte Carlo; Restenosis

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; DATA HANDLING; DENSITOMETERS; DOSIMETRY; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; WIRE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; ELECTRON-GAMMA SHOWER CODES; ENDOVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; HIGH RESOLUTION SCANNING; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO N PARTICLES; RESTENOSIS; ^32P;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

NICKEL; PHOSPHORUS 32; TITANIUM; WATER; PHOSPHORUS; PLASTIC;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIODENSITOMETRY; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FILM DOSIMETER; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOSPHORUS RADIOISOTOPES; PLASTICS; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWARE; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033624388     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1286551     Document Type: Article

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