Accounting for high Z shields in brachytherapy using collapsed cone superposition for scatter dose calculation

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2206-2217

  Carlsson Tedgren, Åsa K ^a,b   Ahnesjö, Anders ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Radiation Protection Authority   (Sweden)

^c Elekta AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Collapsed cone superposition; Heterogeneity corrections; High Z; Intermediate photon energies; Scatter dose calculation

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COLLAPSED CONES; DOSE CALCULATION; HETEROGENEITY CORRECTIONS; HIGH Z; PHOTON ENERGY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

AMERICIUM 241; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTERBIUM; YTTERBIUM 169;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DENSITY; DOSE CALCULATION; ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0042389459     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1587411     Document Type: Article

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