Investigation of a 90Sr/90Y source for intra-ocular treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4370-4378

  Holmes, Shannon M ^a   Micka, John A ^a   Dewerd, Larry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

90Sr 90Y; AMD; Brachytherapy; Calibration; Choroidal neovascularization; CNV

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IONIZATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; CONSTRUCTION TOLERANCE; IONIZATION CURRENT; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; POSITION TOLERANCES; ^90SR/^90Y;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POLYETHYLENE; STRONTIUM 90; YTTRIUM 90; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; STRONTIUM; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; VALIDATION STUDY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RADIATION DOSE; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 70349682614     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3213515     Document Type: Article

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