Experimental determination of dosimetric characterization of a newly designed encapsulated interstitial brachytherapy source of 103Pd-model Pd-1

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2433-2434

  Nath, Ravinder ^a   Yue, Ning ^a   Roa, Eduardo ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

103Pd source; Interstitial brachytherapy; Model Pd 1; Radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; ONCOLOGY; PALLADIUM; RADIOTHERAPY; RATE CONSTANTS;

ANISOTROPY CONSTANTS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE RATE CONSTANTS; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; TASK GROUPS; ^103PD SOURCE;

DOSIMETRY;

PALLADIUM 103;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036797392     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1510452     Document Type: Article

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