Assaying 192Ir line sources using a standard length well chamber

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2692-2697

  Brezovich, Ivan A ^a   Popple, Richard A ^a   Duan, Jun ^a   Shen, Sui ^a   Pareek, Prem N ^a  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

192Ir; Assays; Intravascular brachytherapy; Well chambers

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IRIDIUM; IRIDIUM 192;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULAR DISEASE; ACCURACY; ASSAY; CALCULATION; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

ASSAYS; ONCOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

CORRECTION FACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; MEDICAL PHYSICISTS; POSITION DEPENDENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTS; TREATMENT PLANNING; ^192IR;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0036851669     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1517046     Document Type: Article

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