Treatment planning dosimetric parameters for 192Ir seed at short distances: Effects of air channels and neighboring seeds based on Monte Carlo study

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1521-1528

  Patel, Neil S ^a,b   Chiu Tsao, Sou Tung ^a   Shih, J Allen ^a   Ho, Yunsil ^a   Tsao, Hung Sheng ^c   Harrison, Louis B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

192Ir seed; Brachytherapy dosimetry; Intravascular brachytherapy; Monte Carlo simulation; Task Group 43

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RATE CONSTANTS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE RATE CONSTANTS; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; TASK GROUPS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

IRIDIUM 192; OSMIUM; PLATINUM; RADIOISOTOPE; WATER;

AIR; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY SEED; DOSIMETRY; HALF LIFE TIME; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 3042548128     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1753432     Document Type: Article

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