Fitted dosimetric parameters of high dose-rate 192Ir sources according to the AAPM TG43 formalism

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 654-660

  Lliso, F ^a   Perez Calatayud J ^a   Carmona, V ^a   Ballester, F ^b   Lluch, J L ^b   Serrano, M A ^b   Limami, Y ^b   Casal, E ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c Centro Nacional de Dosimetria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; HDR sources; Treatment planning systems

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DOSIMETRY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DATA UNCERTAINTY; DOSE RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; TRANSVERSE AXIS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

DATA HANDLING;

IRIDIUM 192;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0035045104     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1359438     Document Type: Article

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