Experimental determination of the radial dose function of 90Sr/90Y IVBT sources

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3225-3233

  Holmes, Shannon M ^a   DeWerd, Larry A ^a   Micka, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

IVBT; Radial dose function

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM FLUORIDE; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; EXTRAPOLATION CHAMBER; HIGH-SENSITIVITY RADIOCHROMIC FILMS; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; IVBT; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DOSIMETRY;

LITHIUM FLUORIDE; STRONTIUM 90; YTTRIUM 90;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FILM; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

EID: 33748316786     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2256068     Document Type: Article

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