Monte Carlo dosimetry of 60Co HDR brachytherapy sources

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 712-721

  Papagiannis, P ^a   Angelopoulos, A ^a   Pantelis, E ^a   Sakelliou, L ^a   Karaiskos, P ^b   Shimizu, Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c Nishinokinryo Building 3F   (Japan)

Author keywords

60Co; Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; HDR; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CARTESIAN COORDINATE; DOSE RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; MONTE CARLO DOSIMETRY; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; ^60CO;

RATE CONSTANTS;

COBALT 60; RADIOISOTOPE;

ACCURACY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037391563     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1563662     Document Type: Article

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