Polymer gel dosimetry for the TG-43 dosimetric characterization of a new 125I interstitial brachytherapy seed

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2101-2111

  Papagiannis, P ^a,b   Pantelis, E ^a   Georgiou, E ^c   Karaiskos, P ^c,d   Angelopoulos, A ^a   Sakelliou, L ^a,b   Stiliaris, S ^a,b   Baltas, D ^a,e   Seimenis, I ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications IASA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e Klinikum Offenbach GmbH   (Germany)

^f PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DOSIMETRY; ION IMPLANTATION; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYMERS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

BRACHYTHERAPY SEED; DOSIMETRIC FORMALISM; POLYMER GEL DOSIMETRY; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

IODINE 125; POLYMER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTATION; GEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; TREATMENT DURATION;

BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GELS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYMERS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 33645537480     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/8/010     Document Type: Article

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