Optimization of deterministic transport parameters for the calculation of the dose distribution around a high dose-rate 192Ir brachytherapy source

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2279-2285

  Gifford, Kent A ^a   Price, Michael J ^a   Horton, John L ^a   Wareing, Todd A ^b   Mourtada, Firas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Transpire Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

192Ir; Deterministic calculation; Discrete ordinates; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MESH GENERATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RAY TRACING;

192IR; BRACHYTHERAPY; DETERMINISTIC CALCULATIONS; DISCRETE ORDINATES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY GROUPS; HIGH DOSE RATE; MONTE CARLO'S SIMULATION; OPTIMISATIONS; RATE DISTRIBUTIONS;

PHOTONS;

IRIDIUM 192;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; STANDARD; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ATTILA;

EID: 44349099242     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2919074     Document Type: Article

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