Time-resolved in vivo luminescence dosimetry for online error detection in pulsed dose-rate brachytherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5033-5043

  Andersen, Claus E ^a   Nielsen, Søren Kynde ^b   Lindegaard, Jacob Christian ^b   Tanderup, Kari ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

192ir; Al2O3:c; Brachytherapy dosimetry; Dose verification; Quality assurance; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM COATED STEEL; ALUMINUM OXIDE; APPLICATORS; CRYSTALS; DOSIMETERS; ERROR DETECTION; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEEDLES; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; PROBES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE RATE MEASUREMENTS; DOSE VERIFICATION; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; ON-LINE ERROR DETECTION; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; UNCERTAINTY; ^192IR;

DOSIMETRY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; GLASS FIBER; IRIDIUM 192; STEEL; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LUMINESCENCE; MECHANICAL PROBE; NEEDLE; ONLINE ANALYSIS; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 70449379227     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3238102     Document Type: Article

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