Patient and personnel dosimetry in endovascular radiotherapy with 90Sr/90Y sources

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 514-523

  Kalef Ezra, J ^a   Bozios, G ^a   Tsekeris, P ^a   Michalis, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRONTIUM 90; YTTRIUM 90; STRONTIUM; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RESTENOSIS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BODY BURDEN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FILM DOSIMETER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BODY BURDEN; BRACHYTHERAPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 25144518274     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch496     Document Type: Article

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