Determination of the geometry function for a brachytherapy seed, comparing MCNP results with TG-43U1 analytical approximations

Nukleonika

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 45-49

  Raisali, Gholamreza ^a   Ghonchehnazi, Maryam G ^b   Shokrani, Parvaneh ^b   Sadeghi, Mahdi ^c  

^a NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ATOMIC ENERGY ORGANIZATION OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analytical approximation; Brachytherapy geometry; Function; MCNP; TG 43U1

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449089133     PISSN: 00295922     EISSN: 15085791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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