Monte Carlo aided room scatter corrections in the air-kerma strength standardization of 169Yb and 60Co brachytherapy sources

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Selvam, T Palani ^a   Rajan, K N Govinda ^a   Sethulakshmi, P ^a   Bhatt, B C ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X RAYS;

BRACHYTHERAPY SOURCES;

MEDICINE;

COBALT 60; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTERBIUM; YTTERBIUM 169;

ACCURACY; AIR KERMA STRENGTH; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; ERROR; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; STANDARDIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BACKGROUND RADIATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 0038510175     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/11/401     Document Type: Article

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