Dosimetry parameters of BARC OcuProsta I-125 seed source

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-20

  Sharma, S D ^a   Basu, M ^a   Shanta, A ^a   Palani Selvam, T ^a   Tripathi, U B ^a   Bhatt, B C ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

125I seed; Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; Monte Carlo dosimetry; TL dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RESEARCH; SEED;

BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTER (BARC); INTERSTITIAL APPLICATIONS; ISOTRON; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTIONS;

DOSIMETRY;

IODINE 125;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

EID: 18744399360     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178859     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Perez, C. A., Grigsby, P. W. and Williamson, J. F., Clinical applications of brachytherapy: I. Low dose rate, in Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology, 3rd ed., Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 487-559, 1997.
2. Nori, D., Conformal brachytherapy of prostate cancer: an effective outpatient treatment, Cancer Watch 1: 124-126, 1992.
3. Russel, K. J. and Blasko, J. C., Recent advances in interstitial brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer, Probl. Urology 7: 260-278, 1993.
4. Nath, R., Anderson, L. L., Luxton, G., Weaver, K. A., Williamson, J. F. and Meigooni, A. S., Dosimetry of interstitial brachytherapy sources: Recommendations of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group No. 43, Med. Phys. 22(2): 209-234, 1995.
5. 125I source cores for the treatment of eye cancer, Appl. Radiat. Isot. 59: 145-150, 2003.
6. Williamson, J. F., Coursey, B. M., DeWerd, L. A., Hanson, W. F., Nath, R. and Ibbott, G., Guidance to users of Nicomed Amersham and North American scientific Inc. I-125 Interstitial sources: Dosimetry and Calibration changes: recommendations of the AAPM RTC ad hoc Sub Committee on low energy seed dosimetry, Med. Phys. 26(4): 570-573, 1999.
7. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Calibration of photon and beta-ray sources used in brachytherapy, TECDOC-1274, IAEA, Vienna, Austria, 2002.
8. 192Ir high dose rate brachytherapy source, Med. Phys. 25: 1975-1984, 1998.
9. 192Ir HDR source, Med. Phys. 27: 1025-1030, 2000.
10. Nath, R., Meigooni, A. S. and Meli, J. A., Dosimetry on the transverse axis of I-125 and Ir-192 interstitial brachytherapy sources, Med. Phys. 17: 1032-1040, 1990.
11. 125Iodine brachytherapy source, Med. Phys. 26: 1925-1931, 2001.
12. 125I brachytherapy source, Med. Phys. 27 (9): 2168-2173, 2000.
13. Popescu, C. C., Wise, J., Sowards, K., Meigooni, A. S. and Ibbott, G. S., Dosimetric characteristics of the Pharma seed model BT-125-I source, Med Phys. 27(9): 2174-2181, 2000.
14. 125I brachytherapy sources, Med. Phys. 15(5): 695-701, 1988.
15. Meigooni, A. S., Yoe-Sein, M. M., Al-Otoom, A. Y. and Sowards, K. T., Determination of the dosimetric characteristics of InterSource125 Iodide brachytherapy source, Appl. Radiat. Isot. 56: 589-599, 2002.
16. Williamson, J. F. and Meigooni, A. S., Brachytherapy Physics, Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, 88-133, 1995.
17. Luxton, G., Comparison of radiation dosimetry in water and in solid phantom materials for I-125 and Pd-103 brachytherapy sources: EGS4 Monte Carlo study, Med. Phys. 21: 631-641, 1994.
18. Los Alamos Monte Carlo Group, MCNP - A General Monte Carlo code for neutron and photon transport (version 3.1), 1983.
19. Hubbell, J. H. and Seltzer, S. M., Tables of x-ray mass attenuation coefficients and mass energy absorption coefficients 1 keV to 20 MeV for Elements Z = 1 to 92 and 48 additional substances of dosimetric interest, Technical Report NISTIR 5632, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, 1995.
20. International Commission on Radiological Protection, Radionuclide transformations: energy and intensity of emissions, ICRP Report No. 38, 1983.
21. Rivard, M. J., Refinements to the geometry factor used in the AAPM Task Group Report No. 43 necessary for brachytherapy dosimetry calculations, Med. Phys. 26: 2445-2450, 1999.
22. 192Ir seeds, Med. Phys. 18: 776-786, 1991.
23. Heintz, B. H., Wallace, R. E. and Hevezi, J. M., Comparison of I-125 sources used for permanent interstitial implants, Med. Phys. 28(4): 671-682, 2001.
24. 125I interstitial brachytherapy seed, Med. Phys. 29(5): 709-715, 2002.
25. 125I interstitial brachytherapy seed, Med. Phys. 28(8): 1753-1760, 2001.