Determination of the tissue attenuation factor along two major axes of a high dose rate (HDR) 192Ir source

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1492-1497

  Cho, Sang Hyun ^a   Muller Runkel, Renate ^b   Hanson, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b S Margaret Mercy Healthcare Centers   (United States)

Author keywords

HDR 192Ir source; Monte Carlo calculation; Tissue attenuation factor; TLD

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; WATER ABSORPTION;

CALCULATIONAL METHOD; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; HDR^192IR SOURCE; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO RESULTS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; TISSUE ATTENUATION;

TISSUE;

IRIDIUM 192;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PHYSICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344132631     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598678     Document Type: Article

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