Calculation of dose decrease in a finite phantom of a Ir192 point source

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3943-3950

  Melchert, Corinna ^a   Kohr, P ^a   Schmidt, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

192Ir source; Brachytherapy; Dose calculation; Finite phantom

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

BOUNDARY SHAPES; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; PLANAR BOUNDARIES; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; SCATTER FUNCTIONS; ^192IR SOURCE;

PHANTOMS;

IRIDIUM 192;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DOSIMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION;

EID: 34748882350     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2775664     Document Type: Article

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