Study of encapsulated 170Tm sources for their potential use in brachytherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1629-1637

  Ballester, Facundo ^a,b   Granero, Domingo ^c   Perez Calatayud, Jose ^d   Venselaar, Jack L M ^e   Rivard, Mark J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^e Instituut Verbeeten   (Netherlands)

^f TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; GEANT4; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTONS; PLATINUM; RADIOISOTOPES; RATE CONSTANTS; STAINLESS STEEL;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CHARACTERISTIC X RAYS; DOSE RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; GEANT4; HIGH SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES; HIGH-DOSE-RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; MANUFACTURING TOLERANCES; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

IRIDIUM; PLATINUM; RADIOISOTOPE; THULIUM; YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRON; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; PHOTON; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRONS; PHOTONS; PLATINUM; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFTWARE; THULIUM; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 77950568776     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3360441     Document Type: Article

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