Absolute depth-dose-rate measurements for an 192Ir HDR brachytherapy source in water using MOSFET detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1532-1539

  Zilio, Valéry Olivier ^a   Joneja, Om Parkash ^a,b   Popowski, Youri ^c   Rosenfeld, Anatoly ^d   Chawla, Rakesh ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

192Ir source; Absolute dosimetry; Brachytherapy; Monte Carlo; MOSFET

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MOSFET DEVICES; ONCOLOGY; RADIATION DECONTAMINATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; EXTERNAL RADIOTHERAPY; MOS-FET; MOSFET MEASUREMENTS; SENSITIVITY VARIATION; ^192IR SOURCE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

IRIDIUM 192;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION RESPONSE; SIMULATION;

EID: 33744821401     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2198168     Document Type: Article

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