Performance assessment of the BEBIG MultiSource high dose rate brachytherapy treatment unit

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 7417-7434

  Palmer, Antony ^a   Mzenda, Bongile ^a  

^a QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHARACTERISATION; COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM; DWELL POSITIONS; FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS; GERMANY; HDR SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; IR SOURCE; MEASUREMENT-BASED; MULTISOURCES; NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POSITIONING ACCURACY; POSITIONING ERROR; TRANSIT DOSE; TREATMENT UNITS;

DOSIMETRY; ERRORS; IRIDIUM; LABORATORIES; ONCOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; TIME MEASUREMENT; VIDEO CAMERAS;

DOSIMETERS;

IRIDIUM 192;

ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GERMANY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BRACHYTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 71949088970     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/24/011     Document Type: Article

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