A phantom study of an in vivo dosimetry system using plastic scintillation detectors for real-time verification of 192Ir HDR brachytherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2542-2551

  Therriault Proulx, Francois ^a,b   Briere, Tina M ^a   Mourtada, Firas ^a   Aubin, Sylviane ^c   Beddar, Sam ^a   Beaulieu, Luc ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

brachytherapy; high dose rate; in vivo dosimetry; plastic scintillation detectors; stem effect

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; ERROR DETECTION; NEUTRON DETECTORS; ONCOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHANTOMS; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WATER TREATMENT;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HIGH DOSE RATE; IN-VIVO; PLASTIC SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; STEM EFFECT;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 79959564142     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3572229     Document Type: Article

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