The effect of patient inhomogeneities in oesophageal 192Ir HDR brachytherapy: A Monte Carlo and analytical dosimetry study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2675-2685

  Anagnostopoulos, G ^a   Baltas, D ^a,b   Pantelis, E ^c   Papagiannis, P ^c   Sakelliou, L ^c  

^a Klinikum Offenbach GmbH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PULMONARY DISEASES;

SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS (TPS);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

IRIDIUM 192; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOBIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; STERNUM; TARGET ORGAN; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERTEBRA;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 3242749913     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/12/014     Document Type: Article

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