Determination of absorbed dose in water at the reference point D (r 0, θ0) for an 192Ir HDR brachytherapy source using a Fricke system

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5360-5365

  Austerlitz, C ^a   Mota, H C ^a   Sempau, J ^b   Benhabib, S M ^a   Campos, D ^a   Allison, R ^a   DeAlmeida, C E ^c   Zhu, D ^a   Sibata, C H ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

192Ir; Audit; Dose inter comparison; Fricke dosimetry; HDR; Radial dose; Well type chamber

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); IRRADIATION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOACTIVE PROSPECTING; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOTHERAPY; RATE CONSTANTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUDIT; COMBINED UNCERTAINTY; CYLINDRICAL CAVITIES; CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; DOSE RATE CONSTANTS; INTERCOMPARISONS; RADIAL DOSE; ^192IR;

POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

IRIDIUM 192; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 56749158507     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2996178     Document Type: Article

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