Monte Carlo calculations and experimental measurements of dosimetric parameters of the IRA- 103Pd brachytherapy source

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1288-1294

  Sadeghi, Mahdi ^a,b   Raisali, Gholamreza ^c   Hosseini, S Hamed ^b   Shavar, Arzhang ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL MEDICAL AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH SCHOOL   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

103Pd; Brachytherapy dosimetry; MCNP; Monte Carlo calculations; TG 43

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANISOTROPY; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RATE CONSTANTS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; MCNP; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; TG-43; ^103PD;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PALLADIUM 103;

ACCURACY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 41449107881     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2870229     Document Type: Article

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