Evaluation of high-energy brachytherapy source electronic disequilibrium and dose from emitted electrons

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4250-4256

  Ballester, Facundo ^a,e   Granero, Domingo ^b   Ṕrez Calatayud, Joś ^c   Melhus, Christopher S ^d   Rivard, Mark J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; Electronic disequilibrium; GEANT4; Monte Carlo; PENELOPE

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SPHERES;

BRACHYTHERAPY; ELECTRONIC DISEQUILIBRIUM; ELECTRONIC EQUILIBRIUM; GEANT4; INTERNAL CONVERSION ELECTRONS; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; PENELOPE; SOURCE DIMENSIONS;

ELECTRON EMISSION;

CESIUM 137; COBALT 60; IRIDIUM 192; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTRIUM 169;

ARTICLE; AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREMS RADIATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; LIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; X RAY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SOFTWARE; WATER; X-RAYS; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 69549114520     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3194754     Document Type: Article

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