Dosimetry of 192Ir wires for LDR interstitial brachytherapy following the AAPM TG-43 dosimetric formalism

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 156-166

  Karaiskos, P ^a   Papagiannis, P ^a   Angelopoulos, A ^a   Sakelliou, L ^a   Baltas, D ^b,c   Sandilos, P ^d,e   Vlachos, L ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Klinikum Offenbach GmbH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

192Ir; Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; Monte Carlo; Sievert; Wires

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RATE CONSTANTS; TABLE LOOKUP; WIRE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DOSE RATE CONSTANTS; INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY; LOW DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; SIEVERT; ^192IR;

DOSIMETRY;

IRIDIUM 192; IRIDIUM;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; BIOMETRY; BIOPHYSICS; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICS;

ANISOTROPY; BIOMETRY; BIOPHYSICS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0034745647     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1339885     Document Type: Article

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