Dosimetric comparison of two 90Sr/90Y sources for intravascular brachytherapy: An EGSnrc Monte Carlo calculation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4259-4269

  Wang, Ruqing ^a   Li, X Allen ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BRACHYTHERAPY;

DOSIMETRY;

STRONTIUM 90; WATER; YTTRIUM 90; STRONTIUM; YTTRIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY;

ANISOTROPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0037038920     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/23/311     Document Type: Article

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