Monte Carlo calculation of dosimetry parameters for the IR08- 103Pd brachytherapy source

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2509-2515

  Saidi, Pooneh ^a   Sadeghi, Mahdi ^b   Shirazi, Alireza ^c   Tenreiro, Claudio ^d  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Agricultural Medical and Industrial School   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

103Pd; Brachytherapy; MCNP; Monte Carlo calculation; TG 43U1

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; DOSIMETRY; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY; POSITIVE IONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RATE CONSTANTS; RESINS; TITANIUM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; MCNP; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; TG-43U1; ^103PD;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 77953532948     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3416922     Document Type: Article

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