The design and the dosimetry of bi-nuclide radioactive ophthalmic applicators

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1481-1488

  Flühs, Dirk ^a   Anastassiou, G Gerasimos ^a   Wening, Jan ^a   Sauerwein, Wolfgang ^a   Bornfeld, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beta source; Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; Eye plaque; Iodine 125; Ophthalmic applicator; Plastic scintillator

Indexed keywords

APPLICATORS; RADIOISOTOPES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TUMORS;

BETA SOURCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; EYE PLAQUE; IODINE-125; PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR;

DOSIMETRY;

IODINE 125; RADIOISOTOPE; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM 106;

ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHOROID MELANOMA; CHOROID TUMOR; DOSIMETRY; EYE TUMOR; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 3042640725     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1755471     Document Type: Article

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