Clinical application of radiophotoluminescent glass dosimeter for dose verification of prostate HDR procedure

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5558-5564

  Hsu, Shih Ming ^a,b   Yeh, Chien Yi ^c   Yeh, Tien Chi ^d   Hong, Ji Hong ^c   Tipton, Annie Y H ^e   Chen, Wei Li ^f   Sun, Shung Shung ^a,b   Huang, David Y C ^g,h  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d SHIN KONG WU HO SU MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^f NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^h Mercy Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

High dose rate brachytherapy; Monte Carlo N particle code; Prostate cancer; Radiophotoluminescent glass dosimeter

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; GLASS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; DOSE VERIFICATION; GLASS DOSIMETER; HIGH-DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; MONTE CARLO N PARTICLE CODE; MONTE CARLO N PARTICLES; PROSTATE CANCERS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

EID: 56749097130     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3005478     Document Type: Article

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