Technical note: The calibration of 90Y -labeled SIR-Spheres® using a nondestructive spectroscopic assay

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1278-1279

  Selwyn, R ^a   Micka, J ^a   DeWerd, L ^a   Nickles, R ^a   Thomadsen, B ^a  

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

Author keywords

90Y; Activity; Microbrachytherapy; SIR Sphere; Spectroscopic

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MANUFACTURE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

COLORECTAL ADENOCARCINOMA; EMPIRICAL PRESCRIPTIONS; MICROBRACHYTHERAPY; NON DESTRUCTIVE; PATIENT SPECIFIC; SPECTROSCOPIC; TECHNICAL NOTES; ^90Y;

SPHERES;

MICROSPHERE; MICROSPHERE Y 90; RESIN; SIR SPHERES; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTRIUM 90;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPECTROSCOPY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 41449088905     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2889621     Document Type: Article

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