Dose characterization in the near-source region for two high dose rate brachytherapy sources

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1678-1686

  Wang, Ruqing ^a   Li, X Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; HDR Ir 192; Intravascular brachytherapy; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHARGED PARTICLES; DOSIMETRY; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DOSE CONTRIBUTION; DOSE RATE CONSTANTS; DOSE RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; HDR IR-192; HIGH-DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

RATE CONSTANTS;

IRIDIUM 192;

ACCURACY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0036703411     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1493780     Document Type: Article

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