An analytical dosimetry model as a step towards accounting for inhomogeneities and bounded geometries in 192Ir brachytherapy treatment planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1625-1647

  Anagnostopoulos, G ^a   Baltas, D ^a,b   Karaiskos, P ^c,d   Pantelis, E ^c   Papagiannis, P ^c   Sakelliou, L ^c  

^a Klinikum Offenbach GmbH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; WATER;

DOSE RATE;

DOSIMETRY;

ALLOY; IRIDIUM 192; TUNGSTEN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EVALUATION; GEOMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0038171472     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/11/310     Document Type: Article

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