Determination of 137Cs dosimetry parameters according to the AAPM TG-43 formalism

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 477-483

  Liu, Lizhong ^a   Prasad, Satish C ^a   Bassano, Daniel A ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

137Cs intracavitary source; Sievert integral; TG 43

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

CALCULATION ALGORITHMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; PLANNING SYSTEMS; SIEVERT INTEGRAL; TG-43; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS; ^137CS INTRACAVITARY SOURCE;

DOSIMETRY;

CESIUM 137; CESIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 1642311920     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1644519     Document Type: Article

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