Re-evaluation of the dose to the cyst wall in P-32 radiocolloid treatments of cystic brain tumors using the dose-point-kernel and Monte Carlo methods

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2475-2481

  Janicki, Christian ^a   Seuntjens, Jan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta emitting radionuclides; Dose point kernel; Intracavity therapy; Monte Carlo; Radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DOSIMETRY; NOMOGRAMS; SOLS; TUMORS;

BETA-EMITTING RADIONUCLIDES; BRAIN TUMORS; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; INTEGRATION METHOD; INTRACAVITIES; POINT KERNELS; RE-EVALUATION; THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PHOSPHORUS 32;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; DOSE POINT KERNEL INTEGRATION METHOD; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141855386     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1599652     Document Type: Article

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