Determination of exit skin dose for i 192 r intracavitary accelerated partial breast irradiation with thermoluminescent dosimeters

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2693-2702

  Raffi, Julie A ^a   Davis, Stephen D ^a   Hammer, Cliff G ^a   Micka, John A ^a   Kunugi, Keith A ^a   Musgrove, Jana E ^b   Winston, John W ^b   Ricci Ott, Terresa J ^c   DeWerd, Larry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b El Paso Cancer Treatment Center   (United States)

^c Texas Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

192Ir; Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Energy dependence; Skin dose; Thermoluminescent dosimeters

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; DOSIMETERS; IRRADIATION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; PHANTOMS;

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; SKIN DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; ^192IR;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 77953521592     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3429089     Document Type: Article

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