Feasibility of calibrating elongated brachytherapy sources using a well-type ionization chamber

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4184-4189

  Meigooni, Ali S ^a   Awan, Shahid B ^a   Dou, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elongated brachytherapy source; RadioCoil 103Pd; Source calibration

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; ONCOLOGY;

AIR CHAMBERS; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY; PROSTATE IMPLANTS; SOURCE TYPES; WIDE ANGLE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 33750546257     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2358334     Document Type: Article

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