Ir-192 HDR transit dose and radial dose function determination using alanine/EPR dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1109-1117

  Guzmán Calcina, Carmen S ^a   De Almeida, Adelaide ^a   Oliveira Rocha, José R ^b   Abrego, Felipe Chen ^a,c,d   Baffa, Oswaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE PANAMÁ   (Panama)

^d Caja de Seguro Social   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PATIENT TREATMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TUMORS;

GEOMETRIC DOSE DEGRADATION; HIGH DOSE RATE (HDR); RADIAL DOSE FUNCTIONS; TRANSIT DOSE;

DRUG DOSAGE;

ALANINE; IRIDIUM 192; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GAMMA RADIATION; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 16444387482     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/6/005     Document Type: Article

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