Quality control in interstitial brachytherapy of the breast using pulsed dose rate: Treatment planning and dose delivery with an Ir-192 afterloading system

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-51

  Mangold, Christian A ^a,b   Rijnders, Alexis ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^b   Van Limbergen, Erik ^a   Pötter, Richard ^b   Huyskens, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b AKH Vienna ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Breast; Breast phantom; Gafchromic film; In vivo; Thermoluminescent dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CARCINOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; FILM DOSIMETER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; TECHNIQUE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIBRATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0035915799     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(00)00270-X     Document Type: Article

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