Analytic solution for source distributions in brachytherapy to obtain uniform dose rates in spherical tumor models

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 5871-5879

  Atkinson, William J ^a   Brezovich, Ivan A ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPES; NUMERICAL METHODS; TUMORS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE RATES; SOURCE DISTRIBUTIONS; SPHERICAL TUMOR MODELS;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

CESIUM; RADIUM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR MODEL;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 34748825660     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/19/009     Document Type: Article

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