Brachytherapy technology and physics practice since 1950: A half-century of progress

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Williamson, Jeffrey F ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL RADIOACTIVITY; BRACHYTHERAPY TECHNOLOGY; CANCER THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOTHERAPY;

RADIOLOGY;

CESIUM 137; COBALT 60; GOLD 198; IODINE 125; IRIDIUM 192; PALLADIUM 103; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIUM 226; RADON 222;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER; DOSIMETRY; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; MEDLINE; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRACHYTHERAPY; HEALTH PHYSICS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33745497181     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/13/R18     Document Type: Review

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