Monte Carlo dosimetry of a new 192Ir high dose rate brachytherapy source

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2521-2527

  Angelopoulos, A ^a   Baras, P ^a   Sakelliou, L ^a   Karaiskos, P ^a   Sandilos, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

192Ir; Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; HDR; MicroSelectron; Monte Carlo; VariSource

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RATE CONSTANTS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE RATE CONSTANTS; HIGH-DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; MICROSELECTRON; MONTE CARLO DOSIMETRY; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; VARISOURCE; ^192IR;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

IRIDIUM 192;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVITY; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033679867     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1315316     Document Type: Article

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