Energy spectrum based calculation of the half and the tenth value layers for brachytherapy sources using a semiempirical parametrized mass attenuation coefficient formulism

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2286-2293

  Yue, Ning J ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy source; Half value layer; Mass attenuation coefficient

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; PHOTONS; RADIATION; RADIOISOTOPES; SPECTROSCOPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTING SCHEME; EMITTING SOURCES; ENERGY SPECTRA; HALF VALUE LAYER; LOW ENERGY PHOTONS; MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; SHIELDING MATERIALS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

CESIUM; IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; ENERGY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SHIELD;

EID: 44349112384     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2905356     Document Type: Article

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