Spectroscopic output of 125I and 103Pd low dose rate brachytherapy sources

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 270-278

  Usher Moga, Jacqueline ^a   Beach, Stephen M ^b   Dewerd, Larry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Global Physics Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

103Pd; 125I; Brachytherapy; Germanium detector; Photon spectrum; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SILVER; SPECTROSCOPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; GERMANIUM DETECTOR; PHOTON SPECTRA; ^103PD; ^125I;

GERMANIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

GERMANIUM; IODINE 125; PLATINUM; PLATINUM 103; SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOTOPE; PALLADIUM; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; FLUORESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPECTROSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; PALLADIUM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149123817     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3039789     Document Type: Article

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