Comparison of 60Cobalt and 192Iridium sources in high dose rate afterloading brachytherapy

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 187-192

  Richter, Jürgen ^b   Baier, Kurt ^b   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

192Ir source; 60Co source; Anisotropy factor; HDR afterloading; Radial dose function

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; IRIDIUM 192; COBALT; IRIDIUM;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; BETA RADIATION; COST; ECONOMICS; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM;

BETA RAYS; BRACHYTHERAPY; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; KINETICS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 41949088803     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-008-1684-y     Document Type: Article

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