Determination of dosimetry parameters of ADVANTAGE™ 103pd brachytherapy seed using MCNP4C computer code

Nukleonika

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 181-187

  Ataeinia, Vahideh ^a   Raisali, Gholamreza ^a,b   Sadeghi, Mahdi ^c  

^a Faculty of Engineering   (Iran)

^b NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^c ATOMIC ENERGY ORGANIZATION OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

103Pd Source; ADVANTAGE 103Pd; Brachytherapy; Dosimetry parameters; MCNP4C

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751620056     PISSN: 00295922     EISSN: 15085791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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