Development of a scatter correction technique and its application to HDR i 192 r multicatheter breast brachytherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3703-3713

  Poon, Emily ^a   Verhaegen, Frank ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

192Ir; Breast brachytherapy; Monte Carlo; Scatter correction; TG 43

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; ITS APPLICATIONS; POINT OF INTEREST; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; SCATTER CORRECTION; TG-43; ^192IR;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

IRIDIUM 192;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEART; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION;

EID: 68149161213     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3157105     Document Type: Article

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