Design of a phantom for the quality control of high dose rate 192Ir source used in brachytherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 222-228

  Ochoa, Ricardo ^a   Gómez, Fredy ^a   Ferreira, Ivaldo H ^b   Gutt, Federico ^c   de Almeida, Carlos E ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

192Ir; Brachytherapy; External audit; HDR; Quality control; TLD

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; COBALT 60; IRIDIUM 192;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAZIL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 33847046004     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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