Comparison of air-kerma strength determinations for HDR 192Ir sources

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6721-6729

  Rasmussen, Brian E ^a   Davis, Stephen D ^a   Schmidt, Cal R ^a   Micka, John A ^a   Dewerd, Larry A ^a  

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

Author keywords

air kerma; calibration; EGSnrc; high dose rate brachytherapy; MCNP5; metrology; Monte Carlo; radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEASUREMENT; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

AIR KERMA; CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS; CALIBRATION LABORATORIES; EGSNRC; HIGH-DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; INTERPOLATION METHOD; MCNP5; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 82755190878     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3656683     Document Type: Article

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