Dosimetric accuracy of a deterministic radiation transport based 192Ir brachytherapy treatment planning system. Part I: Single sources and bounded homogeneous geometries

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 649-661

  Zourari, K ^a   Pantelis, E ^a   Moutsatsos, A ^a   Petrokokkinos, L ^a,b   Karaiskos, P ^a   Sakelliou, L ^b   Georgiou, E ^a   Papagiannis, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Nuclear and Particle Physics Section   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; HDR; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOMS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CHARACTERISTIC SOURCES; CLINICAL TREATMENTS; DOSE RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 75749151354     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3290630     Document Type: Article

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