Technical note: Monte Carlo derivation of TG-43 dosimetric parameters for radiation therapy resources and 3M Cs-137 sources

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2464-2470

  Perez Calatayud J ^a   Granero, D ^b   Ballester, F ^b   Casal, E ^b   Cases, R ^b   Agramunt, S ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^c Clínica Benidorm   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; GEANT4 CODE; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; SOURCE ASYMMETRY; TECHNICAL NOTES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

CESIUM 137;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MATERIALS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 23944487700     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1949748     Document Type: Article

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