Optimization of a 90Sr/90Y radiation source train stepping for intravascular brachytherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2891-2896

  Miften, Moyed M ^a   Das, Shiva K ^a   Shafman, Timothy D ^a   Marks, Lawrence B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

90Sr 90Y RST; Dosimetry; Intravascular brachytherapy; Monte Carlo; Optimization

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

DESCENT GRADIENT; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZED PLANS; RADIATION SOURCE; TREATMENT PLANS; ^90SR/^90Y RST;

OPTIMIZATION;

STRONTIUM 90; YTTRIUM 90; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM; YTTRIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RESTENOSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0036918330     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1524169     Document Type: Article

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